Extending pw(8) username limit

[Ryan Coleman]

I already run 10 domains worth of emails here, I would prefer to avoid adding anything that will screw with already functioning accounts...

But maybe there's an option on Dovecot to reroute specific username requests to masquerade that... I'll check that out tomorrow.

Thanks.

On Apr 14, 2011, at 4:49 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> On Apr 14, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>> I have a special situation where I'd like to do either first.last_somedomain.com or first.last at somedomain.com but the former is rejected due to length and the latter due to the "@" by pw(8).
>> 
>> How do I extend this from 16 chars to 32 or 64? I have been finding it difficult to find explicit details on this.
> 
>> From prior experience, your users are going to loathe ("hate" isn't strong enough) 16+ character usernames.
> 
> If the problem is that you want to setup email aliases mapping (eg) charles.swiger, charles_swiger, chuck.swiger, etc, etc to cswiger, the mail aliases file supports that just fine.  And if you want to support users in multiple domains, the /etc/passwd database is just not the place to do it.  Consider SASL, LDAP, or even NIS+; and SASL in particular integrates very smoothly with multi-domain email via Cyrus, Dovecot, etc.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> -Chuck
> 
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