Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 13:27:40 -0800 From: Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Login Max Chr? Message-ID: <20051031212740.GA46898@alexis.mi.celestial.com> In-Reply-To: <43667D41.2010505@calarts.edu> References: <436666F5.1010608@calarts.edu> <cb5206420510311157q17405c75t3bbb2a10959a2a91@mail.gmail.com> <43667D41.2010505@calarts.edu>
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2005, Sean Murphy wrote: >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. >>> ... >>I thought it was 16 characters: >> ... >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 There may be issues with some legacy applications. The only program I know offhand that complains about login names greater than 8 characters is COPS (I may just be running an ancient version of that). Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``the purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people'' -Bill Clinton during an interview on MTV in 1993
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