From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 11 02:19:00 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA11140 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 02:19:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (203-96-92-3.ipnets.xtra.co.nz [203.96.92.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA11132 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 02:18:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from junkmale@pop3.xtra.co.nz) Received: from wocker ([210.55.210.87]) by mta2-rme.xtra.co.nz (InterMail v04.00.02.07 201-227-108) with SMTP id <19990111101910.YBRT678125.mta2-rme@wocker>; Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:19:10 +1300 From: "Dan Langille" Organization: The FreeBSD Diary To: "Alexey V.Vinogradov" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:18:19 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: about 9 and more letter in login name (RELEASE 2.2.8) Reply-to: junkmale@xtra.co.nz In-reply-to: <199901110951.LAA21646@Sun.Farlep.Net> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01d) Message-Id: <19990111101910.YBRT678125.mta2-rme@wocker> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11 Jan 99, at 11:51, Alexey V.Vinogradov wrote: > Hi all Freebsd masters! well, I ain't no master of FreeBSD, but I did remember seeing this question in the FAQ. > I have FreeBSD RELEASE 2.2.8 and i need 9 or more letters in login name. I > do this in 2.2.5 RELEASE, but i needed recompile all system's program. Can > i do this in 2.2.8 without recompile all programs ? (maybe used patch?) At http://www.au.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/FAQ/FAQ226.html#226 I found that FreeBSD 3.0 the maximum size is 16 characters. -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary http://www.FreeBSDDiary.com/freebsd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message