>Linux supports 32 character usernames by default (at least, that's what my
>2.2 system supports), so I'm a little confused... Need usernames longer than
>that?
No. I think 32 chars is long enough. I'll give it a try. Thanks!
Regards,
Sascha
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>>From: "Sascha E. Pollok" <sp@???>
>>To: exim-users@???
>>Subject: [EXIM] Linux & longer Usernames
>>Date: Fri, Apr 30, 1999, 1:22 PM
>>
>
>> Dear folks,
>>
>> I am currently running Exim on a Sun Netra workstation and like to
>> move it to a Linux machine. Due to the fact that die Sun allows
>> longer usernames, our former sys-admin has put a lot of
>> "firstname.lastname" POP3-Ids on the machine, to make mapping
>> from Emailaddress -> POP3-ID easy.
>>
>> On Linux the length of usernames are restricted to 8 chars or
>> whatever. Has someone an idea to move the current mail-config
>> to Linux. I think this is not really exim-related but I wondered
>> if someone knows a kernel-patch or something else.
>>
>> Thank you all very much i.a.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sascha
>
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