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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: userid > 8 chars: What is the truth? X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Lines: 23 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <E39421.F5n@nonexistent.com> References: <32C7EA4E.2377B92F@sirene.woman.de> X-Trace: 851990471/17658 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 00:01:12 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33386 Nora E. Etukudo (nora.e@sirene.woman.de) wrote: : Hello and a Happy New Year for all. : : In recent discussions mainly in 'comp.mail.sendmail' I read about the 8 : character limitation of usernames (userid's) in FreeBSD. Some said : there's a lot of stuff to recompile others ment thats 'telnet' and : 'rlogin' only. : : In the near future I will get just this problem with usernames up to 15 : characters long. I've dropped all OS'es but FreeBSD from all systems for : which I've the authority. : : Am I lost? Have I, after all those lovely years beginning with FreeBSD : 1.1.5.1, lastly to switch to Linux? : : Oh, Goddess of all BSD OS'es, please help. : : There are six or seven machines running FreeBSD 2.1 or greater. I'm running a FreeBSD 2.1 kernel recompiled to have User IDs up to 12 characters...it can be done,stdio.h and another file I forget need fixing.(I have a software limit of the sum of UID and password to 16 characters for dialup customers,though).