From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 17 00:07:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA21692 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:07:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA21687 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:07:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA09844; Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:07:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:07:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Studded cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Info: 16 char usernames in 2.2-Stable In-Reply-To: <199711152115.NAA25128@mail.san.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Studded wrote: > A while ago there was a discussion about moving the ability to > work with more than 8 character usernames in the 2.2 branch. I decided to > give it a go on my test system, and it's working fine. I thought I'd pass > this info on in case anyone else is interested in trying it. The change was made in -CURRENT ages ago, but wasn't backported to 2.2 since it's a major change. If you make the change you must `make world' again and expect to loose utmp/wtmp/other username-length-based files. This includes rebuilding X since xlogin only recognizes 8 char usernames. Some other programs may have hard-coded values. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major