On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Samar Vijay writes:
> > Is there any way to increase the username length to more that 8
> > characters that freeBSD imposes? I have moved to Qmail recently
> > and I have a few users who would like to use their previous mail
> > address.
>
> I think, Samar, that you're failing to make a distinction between a
> username and an email address. Unix doesn't help you make that
> distinction, since both concepts are merged into one. However, there
> is no reason why that should be so.
<snip> lots of good advice by Russell
What's more, recent versions of FreeBSD make no such restricition...
