> Hi.
>
> I'm using radius to authenticate dial up users. Sort of recently I switched
> my main server to FreeBSD from Linux. I have many users who have
> user names of 8 characters, for them to login to PPP accounts they put a
> capital "P" in front of the user name (there is a separate account in the
> password file for these). Now that works fine on [my] Linux system since
> it doesn't care about length of user names. However on FreeBSD there is a
> limit of 8 characters, 8 character user names + a P make it 9. So I'm
> still doing authentication on a Linux server.
>
> However, not all of my users have PPP accounts, so I'm looking for some
> way to let only the PPP/Shell users use shell AND PPP. Ideas anyone?
Patch your FreeBSD kernel to allow longer usernames.
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