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From: joep@helpdesk.euronet.nl (Joep Grooten)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: user id's longer then 8 characters
Date: 7 May 1996 14:19:33 GMT
Organization: Euronet*Internet
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Michael A. Dorin (mad@adc.com) wrote:
: Another silly question:

: How do I make a webmaster account on my system?  (As webmaster contains
: more than 8 characters)

You can do this by adding an entry in the /etc/aliases file. See aliases(8)
and newaliases(1) for more information...

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