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 [email protected] 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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