[Preston] unlimiting 32 character username limit

[Stephen]

Why would u ever want a user longer than 32 chars

-----Original Message-----
From: preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:preston-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of John Craven
Sent: 20 May 2005 12:54
To: preston at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Preston] unlimiting 32 character username limit

I am running Redhat 7.3 and with to add a user name more than 32 characters
long.
e.g. adduser qwerty.asdfgh.zxcvbn-qwert-asdfgh (this is 33 characters long
incl dots)

Does anybody know if this limit can be increased and if so how to do it.

Thanks,

John C

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