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From: rdm@cfcl.com
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Subject: usernames are limited to 8 characters
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>Number:         4818
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       usernames are limited to 8 characters
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Oct 20 16:40:01 PDT 1997
>Closed-Date:    Tue Oct 21 03:14:12 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:  Tue Oct 21 03:14:43 PDT 1997
>Originator:     Rich Morin
>Release:        2.2.1
>Organization:
Canta Forda Computer Laboratory
>Environment:
FreeBSD freebie 2.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE #0: Tue Apr  1 11:51:00 GMT 1997     jkh@whisker.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
FreeBSD does not handle usernames of nine (9) characters or more.
For instance, a reference to ~jefraskin fails, even though the
password file and home directory both use this name.  In addition,
"ls -l" truncates the username to eight characters (e.g., jefraski).
>How-To-Repeat:
Set up an account whose username has 9 or more characters.
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: rdm@cfcl.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: misc/4818: usernames are limited to 8 characters
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 08:21:39 +0200

 As rdm@cfcl.com wrote:
 
 > FreeBSD does not handle usernames of nine (9) characters or more.
 
 Oh, your information is rather out of date.  FreeBSD-current used to
 handle them for quite some time, and it was a deliberate decision to
 not make this the default in FreeBSD-2.2-stable.  You gotta turn it on
 there yourself if you prefer.
 
 -- 
 cheers, J"org
 
 joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
 Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 21 03:14:12 PDT 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
Reason already stated in Joerg's followup. 
>Unformatted:
