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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!zib-berlin.de!uni-paderborn.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!news.dfn.de!scsing.switch.ch!swidir.switch.ch!unifr_news!pc01.ccso.cim.ch!baier From: baier@risc1.ccso.cim.ch (Juergen Baier) Subject: username with more than 8 chars Message-ID: <baier.5.000B245C@risc1.ccso.cim.ch> Sender: news@unifr.ch (User for news) Organization: University of Fribourg - CH X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev A] Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 10:08:26 GMT Lines: 11 Hi there is there way to use usenames with more than 8 characters in NETBSD 0.9? I tried to write a username with 9 chars into /etc/passwd, which was no problem, but when I tried to give this user a password with passwd I got the error message that the user doesn't exist. After I shortened the username to 8 chars I was able to change the password and login as this user. Juergen Baier baier@dns1.cim.ch