From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 2 23:27:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA19275 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 23:27:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA19263 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 1996 23:27:23 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) id IAA09847; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 08:15:24 +0100 (MET) Received: from knobel.gun.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by knobel.gun.de (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA01540; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 08:02:04 +0100 (MET) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 08:02:04 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm To: Daniel Leeds cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: login ids > 7 In-Reply-To: <199601021622.LAA28094@misery.bssc.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Daniel Leeds wrote: > can freebsd support extended login ids? > > ie, a user with 10 characters instead of 7? Hi Daniel ! Easy to try .. vipw -> user xxxxxxxxxx (10 char length ) -> no vipw -> user xxxxxxxx (8 char length ) -> yes -- andreas@knobel.gun.de /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ - Support Unix - aklemm@wup.de - \/ ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz apsfilter - magic print filter 4lpd >>> knobel is powered by FreeBSD <<<