Bug 13152

Summary: systemwide username too short (currently 16 char, should be 64 or so)
Product: Base System Reporter: pi <pi>
Component: miscAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description pi 1999-08-15 16:20:00 UTC 
Deploying a more flexible scheme for automatic user and group
administration, the size of the MAXLOGNAME and UT_NAMESIZE value
is seen as a limiting factor.

Fix: 

I suggest to change the value for the next major release of fbsd
to something like 64 (or larger 8-).
How-To-Repeat: If a system is modified to cope with long usernames, many
applications need to be recompiled -- this becomes impractical
if a larger number of systems need to be maintained.
Comment 1 Alexey Zelkin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 1999-12-20 17:04:53 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

You did not provide any real example. My experience shown that 16 chars is *really* 
enough. Anyway aliases(5) is your friend.