Re: Sendmail usernames

Dax Kelson <[email protected]> 29 Sep 2002 22:13:12 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.release.limbo
Message-ID <1033359193.1757.3.camel@mentor>
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 21:41, Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 20:15, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > On a default setup system for 7.3, is there something special to do, to use
> > characters other than letters so that sendmail accepts them and longer than
> > 8 characters?  A friend tried with a . (period) and with 10 characters in
> > the username and would get the *no such user exists) with them.
> 
> UNIX usernames should be longer than 8 characters.

<sigh>

I meant "should not be"