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From: imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] username length limit: getting around it
Date: 14 May 1995 00:12:49 -0600
Organization: The Village
Lines: 11
Message-ID: <3p4711$qp@rover.village.org>
References: <3p0av2$edf@decaxp.harvard.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: rover.village.org

In article <3p0av2$edf@decaxp.harvard.edu>,
Sir Ilya <itsymbal@scws36.harvard.edu> wrote:
>For example, I can adduser webadmin and it works just fine, but not with 
>a name like webmaster. Is there a way to get around this?

/etc/aliases?

Warner
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