From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 11 8:48:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from gifw.genroco.com (genroco.com [205.254.195.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F6BC37B401 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:48:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from gi2.genroco.com (IDENT:root@gi2.genroco.com [192.133.120.3]) by gifw.genroco.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA01444; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:48:22 -0600 Received: from scot.genroco.com (scot.genroco.com [192.133.120.125]) by gi2.genroco.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA07315; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:48:18 -0600 Message-ID: <00fb01c07bee$4f0da0e0$7d7885c0@genroco.com> From: "Scot W. Hetzel" To: "David Lawson" , "FreeBSD ISP" References: Subject: Re: Username Length Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:48:17 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org From: "David Lawson" > How would I extend the maximum length of usernames for FreeBSD 4.1 > To change the maximum length of usernames you will need to change: file parameter default ------------------------ ---------- -------- /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h MAXLOGNAME 16 /usr/src/include/utmp.h UT_NAMESIZE 16 /usr/src/include/stdio.h L_cuserid (UT_NAMESIZE + 1) You will also need to change the adduser.pl, and rmuser.pl (/usr/src/usr.sbin/adduser) perl scripts to allow > 16 character names. Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message