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Date:      Sun, 6 Sep 1998 17:03:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Satya Devireddy <satya@dspsoft.com>
To:        Zeev Mindali <zeevm@isdn.net.il>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: user name more then 8 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809061655550.27710-100000@srv.kapmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <35F27A3A.58B581EE@isdn.net.il>

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> i tried to inc. the limit of user name to 16 chr.
> and then made a make world
> 
> nothing happend

On FreeBSD CURRENT-3.0

The default is 16 chars

bash-2.01# adduser
[.....]
Enter username [a-z0-9_-]: testuser12345678901234567890 
Username is longer than 16 chars
Enter username [a-z0-9_-]: 

-Satya
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Satya Devireddy	   


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