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From: Jos Vissers <Jos.Vissers@telebyte.nl>
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Subject: User name length limit increase
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Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 15:19:32 +0200 (MET DST)
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Hello,

Can somebody please explain how to increase the user login name length
limit. I would expect this to be some systemwide setting or at
worst a definition in a header file.
But I can't find anything except UT_NAMESIZE (8) in utmp.h.
Increasing that and recompiling libc doesn't help a lot.

Is it possible at all to increase this beyond 8 and if so, how?

Thanks, Jos

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   Jos Vissers, System administrator Telebyte