Alexander wrote: > A hack like that may also mess up certain programs that expect a username > no longer than 8 characters. It's presumably possible, though. FWIW, I've had a user on my system with a username of 9 characters for a long while with no problems. Some programs truncate the username to 8, but it works ok. -- see shy jo -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null