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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Brad Dale wrote:

> Is it possible to have longer than eight character User Names in FreeBSD.

yes, but you don't want to.

See the mail archives for the ensuing flame war :)

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