From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 29 19:48:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ms.securenet.net (ms.securenet.net [205.236.147.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09AD614E43 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 19:48:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vandj@securenet.net) Received: from office (office.securenet.net [205.236.147.3]) by ms.securenet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA23278 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 22:47:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990729224552.00b71db0@ms.securenet.net> X-Sender: vandj@ms.securenet.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 22:47:26 -0400 To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org From: "Jean M. Vandette" Subject: Re: Modifying MAXLOGNAME ? In-Reply-To: References: <4.1.19990727215803.009f5380@ms.securenet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 07:12 PM 7/29/99 +0200, you wrote: >Hi! > >> >Anyone ever changed >> > >> >MAXLOGNAME/UT_NAMESIZE > >> >I want to increase this. Maybe to, say, 64 chars instead of 16. > >> I don't know why you would want such a high number however, >> if you're serious about this first get the full souces I would suggest >> CVSUP to make sure everthing is up to date including the ports collection. > >> - Install your fresh system, including all the sources. >> - Edit the value of UT_NAMESIZE in /usr/src/include/utmp.h to 64 (or >> whatever you want) >> - Edit the value of MAXLOGNAME in /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h to one >> greater than the value you gave UT_NAMESIZE (eg. 65) > >Done. Works OK with 64/65, as of now, on a demo system. > >> Remake the world and your kernel. Note that there are a lot of ports >> that use the UT_NAMESIZE parameter, eg. the POP server. You *must* >> rebuild them on this machine for them to work properly. (ie. you cannot >> install packages, or ports that were built on another system). > >OK, no problem with that. But now the other way around: > >If I compiled a application on that kind of mangled system >and copied it to a "short-user" system -- assuming that the usernames >on the "short-user" system are short-only-ones: Would these >applications still work ? > >I booted the modified system, but with the old >kernel and it still worked. > >I'll think this over. Never tried it that way, I would assume no. But like I said I have not done the reverse.... better still why would you bother or want to. Regards Jean M. Vandette ************************************************************************** *SecureNet Information Services Inc. 100 Alexis Nihon Blvd., Suite 283* *(514) 744-4242 Vox (514) 744-1552 Fax St. Laurent, Quebec H4M 2N7 * ********** Providing Quality Public Internet access since 1994************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message