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From: caddy@osprey.unf.edu (Cliff Addy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: chown limited to 8 characters?
Date: 27 Jan 1996 20:10:45 GMT
Organization: University of North Florida
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Is chown limited to 8 character user names?  If I create a new user with
a name longer than 8 characters, a chown on their home directory fails with
an 'illegal user name' error.  The user does exist and repeating this
experiment with a 6 character name works fine.

Is this for real?  All other commands seem ok with the longer name.  It's 
hard to believe this limit exists. What is this, DOS?

Cliff