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From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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Subject: Re: max user ID length?
In-Reply-To: <199903221602.KAA17629@sierrahill.com> from Joe Schwartz at "Mar 22, 99 10:02:34 am"
To: rjoe@sierrahill.com (Joe Schwartz)
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:23:17 -0500 (EST)
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Joe Schwartz wrote,
> Folks,
>  
> This is on release 3.1.
>  
>  
> What is the maximum length for a login ID. I thought it
> was 8 characters ... but just installed majordomo and
> realized after I'd done the 'adduser' that it was 9
> characters ... and I can login as mojordomo.
>  
> I have just created users on this machine which were on an
> NT server where some had longer than 8 characters. 
>  
> Could I have created these long user ID's without truncating
> at 8 characters?

From the 3.0 Release Notes
(http://www.freebsd.org/releases/3.0R/notes.html),

1.3. USERLAND CHANGES
.
.
.
The default username length has increased to 16 characters.
Caution:  Old utmp/wtmp files will NOT work with this change since
the data records will be of the old size.  For a conversion utility
to aid with this, see /usr/src/tools/3.0-upgrade.

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Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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