From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 19 19:15:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA25886 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (root@gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA25881 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:15:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA09235; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:14:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA05834; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:14:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA09566; Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:14:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199709200214.TAA09566@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 19:14:57 -0700 In-Reply-To: Tom "Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5?" (Sep 19, 5:39pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: Tom , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? Cc: Studded , "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sep 19, 5:39pm, Tom wrote: } Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? } I'd like to register strong disagreement with the above. The change } itself, is simple. It is going to affect packages that read/alter } utmp/wtmp/lastlog. And anything that calls getpw* } However, since the packages will be re-built } everything will be ok, as long as people don't use old packages. This also means that folks who don't upgrade to 2.2.5 can't install new packages. --- Truck