Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Sep 1999 22:12:20 +0200 | From | Jens Benecke <> | Subject | Re: Re: numerical username |
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On Tue, Sep 07, 1999 at 07:16:23PM +0400, Khimenko Victor wrote:
> >>>hi, does anyone know where to change in the kernel so that I can begin > >>>my username with numerical symbols? and also allows more than 8 > >>>characters? > > There is a whole bunch of apps that will dislike you if the name is > > non-conventiional. ntalk for example dislikes dots, quota and other > > user utils dislike long names, etc, etc, etc. > ntalk will dislike long names (>11 characters long) as well. Quota... > Hmm... What's broken there ?
Quota dislikes quotas over 4 GB, if that counts as well. That is somewhat annoying for us here, I'd like to know about a patch.
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