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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2000 22:16:48 -0600 (CST)
From:      Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
To:        Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org>
Cc:        Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>, Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Long User name problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003102215320.9685-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003102159270.9685-100000@ren.sasknow.com>

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Ryan Thompson wrote to Shawn Ramsey:

> Shawn Ramsey wrote to Danny and Doug Barton:
> 
> > At 01:13 PM 3/12/2000 +1100, Danny wrote:
> > >HEllo,
> > >
> > >I thought From FreeBSD 3.3 onwards it supported 16 characters in the username.
> > >I am wondering if you can show me the username you are having problems adding?
> > 
> > Yeah, well, thats the problem. :) We have other systems that work just fine 
> > with long user names. One particular system does not. What exactly do you 
> > want me to show you?
> > 
> Please fix any line breaks or obvious errors:
> 
> echo 'bobbyjoelongname::62424:62424::0:0:Bigass \
> Username:/nonexistent:/bin/csh' >> /etc/master.passwd
> pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd
> su bobbyjoelongname
> whoami
> who
> w
> exit
> last | head -1
> 

Here I go again.  Please don't use 'su'  :-).  Log in as that user
instead.  The above worked fine for me on 3.4-STABLE and 3.2-RELEASE.


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