Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:37:24 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeff.Lynch-JORSM.Internet" <jeff@mercury.jorsm.com> To: Jos Vissers <Jos.Vissers@telebyte.nl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User name length limit increase Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961007093544.15003G-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> In-Reply-To: <199610071319.PAA07276@monet.telebyte.nl>
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On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Jos Vissers wrote: > Hello, > > Can somebody please explain how to increase the user login name length > limit. I would expect this to be some systemwide setting or at > worst a definition in a header file. > But I can't find anything except UT_NAMESIZE (8) in utmp.h. > Increasing that and recompiling libc doesn't help a lot. > > Is it possible at all to increase this beyond 8 and if so, how? > > Thanks, Jos > > -- > Jos Vissers, System administrator Telebyte > DON'T DO IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Too much legacy code out there won't work if you do. Keep this huge can of worms closed. ========================================================================= Jeffrey A. Lynch, President JORSM Internet email: jeff@jorsm.com Northwest Indiana's Full-Service Provider Voice: (219)322-2180 927 Sheffield Avenue, Dyer, IN 46311 Autoresponse: info@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com
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