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Date:      Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:21:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Piotr Wozniak <Piotr.Wozniak@CS.PUT.Poznan.PL>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: MAXLOGNAME
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808061320270.28098-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19980804121935.354fc55c@sirius.cs.put.poznan.pl>

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On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Piotr Wozniak wrote:

> Hi,
> I wanted to increase the length of user name (FreeBSD 2.2.7).

Use -current instead, we've already increased it for you.  

> I changed value of UT_NAMESIZE (in /usr/include/utmp.h) to 12 and 'made world'
> but this brought no result. Moreover constant UT_NAMESIZE returned
> to its previous value - 8.

You have to make the change in several places and rebuild *everything*,
including ssh and XFree86.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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