From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 25 09:01:38 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA00988 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 09:01:38 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA00982 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 09:01:36 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA18298; Wed, 25 Jan 95 08:43:54 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9501251543.AA18298@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Usernames > 8 chars To: bugs@warlock.win.net (Mark Hittinger) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 95 8:43:54 MST Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9501250548.AA00494@warlock.win.net> from "Mark Hittinger" at Jan 25, 95 00:48:33 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I've hunted down all the modules that I think I need to change. > Some of the symbols are like "UT_NAMESIZE" ect. > > Does anyone have any words of wisdom for me about what I might > break if I proceed to stretch this field out two more bytes? :-) The ability to distribute your password database across several machines using NIS, for one. The ability to use binary programs for which source is unavailable, and which use getpwent() and family for another. Like Netscape. If you can recompile your world, and don't mind doing so, go for it. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.