Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:23:29 -0800 From: Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Login Max Chr? Message-ID: <43667D41.2010505@calarts.edu> In-Reply-To: <cb5206420510311157q17405c75t3bbb2a10959a2a91@mail.gmail.com> References: <436666F5.1010608@calarts.edu> <cb5206420510311157q17405c75t3bbb2a10959a2a91@mail.gmail.com>
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Andrew P. wrote: > On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> wrote: >> I am running FreeBSD 5.4 >> >> Is there a way to change the eight character login length to allow more >> characters? >> >> The reason is I would like to do first initial last name for the login. >> However some last names are longer than eight characters. It would also >> work well for email addresses on the server. >> >> Thanks >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > I thought it was 16 characters: > > sat64# cat /etc/passwd | grep 123 > 1234567890123456:*:1005:1005:123:/home/1234567890123456:/bin/sh > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > is there any problems with using 16 characters with any applications or do the applications don't care the login name length for example email using uw-imap uw-pop -- Sean Murphy Senior Network Technician California Institute of the Arts 661-253-7732 smurphy@calarts.edu
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