Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 01:28:42 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Joe Schwartz <rjoe@sierrahill.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: login ID max length Message-ID: <36F66FBA.46EA776D@newsguy.com> References: <199903221558.JAA17602@sierrahill.com>
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From 3.x on, the user id maximum length is 16. This can be changed in the source code, of course, but I think anyone trying is likely to forget something or other... :-) 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? > > Thanks, > > Joe Schwartz > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "What happened?" "It moved, sir!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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