Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 11:20:57 -0700 From: Studded <Studded@dal.net> To: Al Reuben <alex@nac.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Rick Smith <rsmith@nac.net>, Who???? <rpalma@nac.net> Subject: Re: Strange username questions... Message-ID: <355B3609.7F89C30A@dal.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980514004150.24642K-100000@iago.nac.net>
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Al Reuben wrote: > > We are migrating our mail server from a single Linux box to a (we hope) > freebsd cluster. > > We are running into two problems, one of which I think we have solved by > looking at the archives. First, we have the need for greater than 8 > character usernames; we have over 9500 accounts, and many _already_ have > usernames > 8 chars, and we can't change them. But, I saw the notes on > -CURRENT, etc., and I think we can accomplish this feat. You can have long usernames on -Stable too. In /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h change MAXLOGNAME to 18 and in /usr/src/include/utmp.h change UT_NAMESIZE to 16 and you can have 16 character usernames. As stated, once this is done you have to make world, then make a new kernel and reboot. I also suggest deleting wtmp and utmp before rebooting since the larger usernames require a different format in those files. > However, we found something else interesting. Unlike Linux, FreeBSD > appears that it can't have '.'s (meaning PERIODS) in usernames; Already answered. It works, but is not recommended. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of the world's largest Internet *** Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections. *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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