Re: ADDUSER AND >8 Usernames?

[Alexander <vulture@abac.com>]

Hi...

A hack like that may also mess up certain programs that expect a username
no longer than 8 characters. It's presumably possible, though.

Alex

On 19 Jul 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote:

> Date: 19 Jul 1998 21:36:32 +0200
> From: Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>
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> Subject: Re: ADDUSER AND >8 Usernames?
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> >> "k" == kent  <kent@gbasin.net> writes:
> 
> k> how does one go about getting a username longer than
> k> 8 charachters added?
> 
> The only way I know is to edit the passwd/shadow file.
> 
> Ciao,
> 	Martin
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