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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.inc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!jraynard.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: long usernames Date: 24 Jul 1996 01:04:06 -0000 Organization: A FreeBSD Box Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4t3sq6$k1m@jraynard.demon.co.uk> References: <4t31if$fjf@client2.news.psi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost Keywords: adduser X-NNTP-Posting-Host: jraynard.demon.co.uk In article <4t31if$fjf@client2.news.psi.net>, <ccunningham@netwkcal.com> wrote: >I have tried to modify the adduser script so that I can use it to create users' names >8 char.'s, but I get and invalid login error. Is there >another way to do this? I think I'll have to add this to the FAQ. You have to change two variables in a couple of include files and re-build all your system binaries. This may cause problems when exchanging data with other machines which expect login names to consist of at most 8 characters; in particular, NIS. If you want more details, please look on the archives for this newsgroup or for the freebsd-questions mailing list, where this has been discussed many times before. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/