Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 23:40:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Engineer, 08.ZIYA" <shyone@constantchange.on.ca> To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usernames greater than 8 characters Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960411233643.767A-100000@dreamlabs.dreaming.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960411150238.13508B-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
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On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Eric J. Schwertfeger wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Apr 1996, Engineer, 08.ZIYA wrote: > > > > > Is there any way to increase the length of the login field of the > > password file to greater than 8 characters, or is it that pretty much the > > maximum possible? I'd like to be able to squeeze about 10 or even 12 in > > there (i'm assuming there is a good reason why adduser currently limits me > > to 8 chars by default). > > YP (or was it NIS) is limited to 8 char, so to avoid breaking as soon as > that is installed, FreeBSD defaults to an 8 char max, though you can > increase it. I can't find my email that mentioned how, so I'll let > someone else pipe up. > cool... i don't plan to run NIS/YP in the near future, so this won't be a concern. Thanks for letting me know that it is at least possible so i can add it to my to-do list. -Mit %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % ShyOne | Mitayai % % Reality Engineer | Project Co-ordinator % % Arcturia Three | DreamLabs % % shyone@constantchange.on.ca | mitayai@dreaming.org % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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