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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!neoucom.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!kira.cc.uakron.edu!odin.oar.net!malgudi.oar.net!news2.ee.net!news.ee.net!imci2!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!usenet.cis.ufl.edu!usenet.ufl.edu!livia.unf.edu!usenet.unf.edu!osprey.unf.edu!caddy From: caddy@osprey.unf.edu (Cliff Addy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: chown limited to 8 characters? Date: 27 Jan 1996 20:10:45 GMT Organization: University of North Florida Lines: 9 Message-ID: <4ee0s5$ec@osprey.unf.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: osprey.unf.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Is chown limited to 8 character user names? If I create a new user with a name longer than 8 characters, a chown on their home directory fails with an 'illegal user name' error. The user does exist and repeating this experiment with a 6 character name works fine. Is this for real? All other commands seem ok with the longer name. It's hard to believe this limit exists. What is this, DOS? Cliff