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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!sunic.sunet.se!mimuw.edu.pl!news.nask.org.pl!news.cto.us.edu.pl!news From: swierzy@usctoux1.cto.us.edu.pl (Witek Świerzy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: [Q] username length limit: getting around it Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 12:20:07 GMT Organization: Uniwersytet Śląski Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3pi63k$r4m@helios.cto.us.edu.pl> References: <3p0av2$edf@decaxp.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: gate.math2.us.edu.pl X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.46 itsymbal@scws36.harvard.edu (Sir Ilya) wrote: >There seems to be a limit on how long a username can be. >For example, I can adduser webadmin and it works just fine, but not with >a name like webmaster. Is there a way to get around this? I've got the same problem.It seems that it is problem with chown, but chown used alone ( out of 'adduser.sh' ) works good ( without any limits ). The problem must be in adduser.sh script. Witek Swierzy swierzy@tc3.ich.us.edu.pl