From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 31 20:21:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA5F16A41F for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:21:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Received: from muse.calarts.edu (muse.calarts.edu [198.182.157.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8715243D45 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:21:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Received: from [198.182.157.164] (dhcp7164.calarts.edu [198.182.157.164]) by muse.calarts.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id j9VKLv415840 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:21:57 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43667D41.2010505@calarts.edu> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:23:29 -0800 From: Sean Murphy User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.4.1 (Windows/20051006) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <436666F5.1010608@calarts.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Login Max Chr? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:21:59 -0000 Andrew P. wrote: > On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy 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