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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.nacamar.de!news.bln.de!mind.de!bolzen.in-berlin.de!news.all.de!eeubln!woman.de!usenet From: "Nora E. Etukudo" <nora.e@sirene.woman.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: userid > 8 chars: What is the truth? Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 16:14:06 +0000 Organization: Frauen-Computer-Netzwerk WOMAN, Mailbox SIRENE, Berlin Lines: 23 Message-ID: <32C7EA4E.2377B92F@sirene.woman.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: amazone.woman.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; Linux 2.0.25 i486) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33317 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. Liebe Grüße, Nora. -- | nora.e@sirene.woman.de Mailbox SIRENE im Frauen-Computer-Netzwerk | | nora@frauen.im-Netz.de W O M A N - Women Only Mail And News | | nora@services.de http://www.woman.de |