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SubjectRe: Re: numerical username
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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