Re: User names.

1999-02-08 Thread Rob Mahurin
Simple: I have an /etc/aliases but no virtusertable. I suspect this is becuase I am using sendmail and you are not, but I have a bad habit of being wrong and will put this back on the list so that someone can confirm/correct that assumption. Rob On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 12:07:40PM -0800, Chris W

Re: User names.

1999-02-05 Thread Rob Mahurin
Hmmm ... I didn't know about this limit when I installed and used a ten-character username and an eight or nine-character password. When I log in, I have to use the full username (alphenglor), and my home dir is /home/alphenglor, but files owned by me are shown as alphengl.alphengl (I'm not at a t

Re: User names.

1999-02-05 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Chris Wong wrote: > For Debian, user names are limited to 8 characters.. as well > as the passwords. How can this be, lengthened? ... as well as long > email addreses? ie: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know how you

Re: User names longer than 8 characters

1997-01-22 Thread Chad Zimmerman
I have been able to do it with the --force-badname in the adduser command. Chad D. Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dabcc-www.nmsu.edu/~chad/ On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > The subject line says it... in these days user names longer than 8 > characters are becoming popular..