Re: Login Max Chr?

From: Bill Campbell (freebsd_at_celestial.com)
Date: 10/31/05

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    On Mon, Oct 31, 2005, Sean Murphy wrote:
    >Andrew P. wrote:
    >>On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> wrote:
    >>>I am running FreeBSD 5.4
    >>>
    >>>Is there a way to change the eight character login length to allow more
    >>>characters?
    >>>
    >>>The reason is I would like to do first initial last name for the login.
    >>>However some last names are longer than eight characters. It would also
    >>>work well for email addresses on the server.
    >>>
    ...
    >>I thought it was 16 characters:
    >>
    ...
    >is there any problems with using 16 characters with any applications or
    >do the applications don't care the login name length for example
    >
    >email using
    >uw-imap
    >uw-pop

    There may be issues with some legacy applications. The only
    program I know offhand that complains about login names greater
    than 8 characters is COPS (I may just be running an ancient
    version of that).

    Bill 

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