Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 15:56:31 -0400 (EDT) From: freebsd-questions@andrewsupdates.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: increasing username length via MAXLOGNAME and UT_NAMESIZE Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0504201521090.17640-100000@charon.cs.cuc.edu>
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Hi, I have read the adduser man page which states the following: "You can change UT_NAMESIZE in <utmp.h> and recompile the world; people have done this and it works, but you will have problems with any precompiled programs, or source that assumes the 8-character name limit and NIS." I have had a hard time finding examples of anyone who has actually increased the username length to something like 64+ characters though. I am wondering what if anything (besides NIS) might break on a freeBSD box running virtual domains with postfix/courier/apache/squirrelmail/webmin/etc. Has anyone actually done this and if so have you had any problems? The reason I'm looking at doing this is to support user@domain.com style usernames (POP/IMAP/Webmail/usermin) without using a MySQL or LDAP system for authentication. Thanks, Andrew
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