Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 22:07:58 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org> Cc: Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long User name problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003102159270.9685-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000310184741.023312d0@mail.cpl.net>
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Shawn Ramsey wrote to Danny and Doug Barton: > At 01:13 PM 3/12/2000 +1100, Danny wrote: > >HEllo, > > > >I thought From FreeBSD 3.3 onwards it supported 16 characters in the username. > >I am wondering if you can show me the username you are having problems adding? > > Yeah, well, thats the problem. :) We have other systems that work just fine > with long user names. One particular system does not. What exactly do you > want me to show you? > Please fix any line breaks or obvious errors: echo 'bobbyjoelongname::62424:62424::0:0:Bigass \ Username:/nonexistent:/bin/csh' >> /etc/master.passwd pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd su bobbyjoelongname whoami who w exit last | head -1 If that returns predicted output, you may be running into problems with individual programs. ls -l, for example, truncates usernames to a variable length (~8 characters). -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Systems Administrator, Accounts Phone: +1 (306) 664-1161 SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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