Login Max Chr?

[Andrew P.]

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