From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 07:33:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA00534 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 07:33:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (jeff@mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA00526; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 07:33:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jeff@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.6.12/8.6.10) id JAA15630; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:37:24 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:37:24 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeff.Lynch-JORSM.Internet" To: Jos Vissers cc: questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User name length limit increase In-Reply-To: <199610071319.PAA07276@monet.telebyte.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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