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Date:      Sun, 21 Sep 1997 18:06:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Rob Miracle <rwm@MPGN.COM>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.970921180522.3677B-100000@shell.uniserve.com>
In-Reply-To: <7190.874890216@orion.webspan.net>

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On Sun, 21 Sep 1997, Gary Palmer wrote:

> Tom wrote in message ID
> <Pine.BSF.3.96.970919141426.20289A-100000@shell.uniserve.com>:
> >   Really useful?  Like who has over 65,000 users in /etc/passwd anyhow?
> 
> root@mail0:/# wc -l /etc/passwd
>   274200 /etc/passwd
> 
> ahem
> 
> Unfortunately not a FreeBSD box ... I don't think there are any PC's
> with the sort of hardware that machine needs (8 processors, 2gigs ram,
> etc)

  And I really doubt that you're limited to 8 characters usernames on such
a system.

> Gary
> --
> Gary Palmer                                          FreeBSD Core Team Member
> FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
> 

Tom




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