[Wylug-help] unlimiting 32 character username limit

[Jim Jackson]

On Sat, 21 May 2005, John Craven wrote:

> Thanks to everyone who contributed to my proble.
> I realised that I didn't need a username to be more than 32 characters.

> What I did was to setup a username of less than 32 characters and then 
> use the virtualusertable to map a much longer email address to the 
> shorter username.

Is this what us sendmail people call an email alias ?

Jim

>
> Thanks,
>
> John C
>
>
> At 12:52 20/05/2005 +0100, you wrote:
>> 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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