From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 14 06:00:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E4337B401 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 06:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gateway.ironmikie.nl (www.ironmikie.nl [213.19.144.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E5243F75 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 06:00:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@gateway.ironmikie.nl) Received: from gateway.ironmikie.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gateway.ironmikie.nl (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h4ED0p8v066710 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 15:00:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mike@gateway.ironmikie.nl) Received: (from mike@localhost) by gateway.ironmikie.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h4ED0oNS066709 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 15:00:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:00:49 +0200 From: Mike To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030514130049.GA66676@ironmikie.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-message-flag: Nice to know : this message is sent with mutt X-Warning: Don't spam me or i spam you back twice! X-Orginal: No. Subject: pw username too long (max 16) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 13:00:56 -0000 Hello, I am running FreeBSD 4.8 stable and i am migrating a Linux box to FreeBSD. The problem is that i have usernames up to 32 characters (please don't ask me why). I did a few things: * changed #define MAXLOGNAME 33 in /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h I did a buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel and installworld. After rebooting the max is still 16. I know i am doing something wrong, but i don't know what it is. Please help. Greetz, Mike