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Date:      Tue, 24 Feb 1998 12:20:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        pstewart <pstewart@oncomdis.on.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Username Lengths
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980224121915.26338G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.980223150631.9905A-100000@oncomdis.on.ca>

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On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, pstewart wrote:

> On a few of our linux systems we run usernames UP to 24 characters in
> length and have yet to have a problem with anything such as sendmail,
> ftpd, etc. etc... 
> 
> Can someone briefly outline how to increase the username length in
> FreeBSD?

This is complex; you have to modify user apps as well (xdm comes to mind) 
and rebuild everything.  -CURRENT currently has support for long
usernames. 

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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