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Date:      Fri, 19 Sep 1997 08:39:27 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Thad Smith <tsmith@sig.net>
To:        John Brown <jbrown@vafibre.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Username Alias
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.3.95.970919083641.26274C-100000@austin.aus.sig.net>
In-Reply-To: <199709181935.0000015F@intra.vafibre.com>

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On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, John Brown wrote:

>  I want to allow my users to be able to use longer usernames but am limited
> (as I was told earlier in this group). So is their a way to assign aliases
> to user login names?

Check out the file /etc/aliases. In this file you can create aliases under
the format

alias_name: user_name

Where you decide the alias_name and point it to the user_name. You can
alse do multiple user names (seperated by a ,) and some other cool stuff.
After saving the file type 'newaliases' at the command prompt.

Thad

> (This may be a stupid question but I'm sure that I'm not the only FreeBSD
> user that has had this need)
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> 

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