Login Max Chr?

Sean Murphy smurphy at calarts.edu
Mon Oct 31 12:21:59 PST 2005


Andrew P. wrote:
> On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy <smurphy at 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.
>>
>> Thanks
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> 
> I thought it was 16 characters:
> 
> sat64# cat /etc/passwd | grep 123
> 1234567890123456:*:1005:1005:123:/home/1234567890123456:/bin/sh
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> 
is there any problems with using 16 characters with any applications or 
do the applications don't care the login name length for example

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Sean Murphy
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