i just made two accounts with the following usernames and they both work:

0123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890

01234567_89012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
                ^----- Note '_' is inserted as the 9th character which is 
different.

that's a lot of characters. vipw didn't complain at all.

i suppose i'll try 70 chars and see if that will work too.. maybe the limit 
is 64?

At 03:19 PM 3/9/00 +0100, cpg@aladdin.de wrote:



>On 03/09/2000 02:07:59 PM GMT Rob Windsor wrote:
> >
> >Verily did mocha write:
> >
> >> can we do 8+ characters in usernames? i asked this back in .8 era, but
>i've
> >> not been paying attention. with our systems used for the public, they
>want
> >> more than 8 characters.
> >
> >You can (i.e. "majordomo"), but the daily security script will whine about
>it.
> >
> >So far, I haven't seen a problem with it, otherwise.
>
>Does it work if 2 names are different only in the 8+ letter?
>e.g. majordomo and majordoma  ?
>
>regards,
>chris