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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: When is 2.2R due out?
Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 20:33:35 -0700
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Louis Epstein wrote:
> 

> But doesn't this lose you your own recompiles?
> I've enabled 12-character UserIDs on my system,
> wouldn't want the default 8 coming back every
> time.I expect my upgrades to be stable release
> versions.


All right, I don't mind admitting I'm relatively new to both Unix and to 
FreeBSD. Could you please enlighten me on how you extended UserIDs to 
more than 8 characters? I found the check in the adduser program, but 
even when I changed that it didn't work right. What else do I need to do, 
pray tell?

I'm starting a new FreeBSD-powered WebSite and would like to be able to 
bypass this limit.

Thanks much,

Ken