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From: steve@pelican.net (Stephen C. West-Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: UserID size
Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 12:20:46 GMT
Organization: Pelican.Net
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I'd like to try to modify FreeBSD to allow userids longer than 8
characters.  I've looked around some and can't find where it's
limiting them to 8 characters.  Could someone point me in the right
direction?
Steve
steve@pelican.net