Login Max Chr?

Andrew P. infofarmer at gmail.com
Mon Oct 31 13:16:47 PST 2005


On 10/31/05, Sean Murphy <smurphy at calarts.edu> wrote:
> 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
>

That depends solely on the applications. Most
newer ones will not show any problems.


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