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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
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On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 05:13:04PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Julian Elischer, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 3 May 2004, Kevin A. Pieckiel wrote:
> 
> > I want to modify sys/param.h to increase the value of MAXLOGNAME.  I know
> I've done exactly this..
> 
> edit /usr/src/sys/param.h

There's another #define in another header you have to edit.  I'll
think of it in a minute...

Ah; UT_NAMESIZE in include/utmp.h.

Used to do that all the time on 2.x.x to get 16 char usernames   8-)


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