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Date:      Wed, 14 May 2003 15:00:49 +0200
From:      Mike <mike@ironmikie.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   pw username too long (max 16)
Message-ID:  <20030514130049.GA66676@ironmikie.nl>

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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



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