From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 20 01:54:13 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9873E16A4CE for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:54:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26DF743D45 for ; Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:54:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) id i7K1sCbw092497; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:54:12 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:54:12 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Chris Dillon Message-ID: <20040820015412.GA8165@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20040819183508.X95665@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040819183508.X95665@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 16-character username limit in quotas? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:54:13 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 19), Chris Dillon said: > I've just run into a 16-character username limit in our quota > support, or at least in the edquota command itself (5-CURRENT): > > edquota -u -e /afilesystem:614400:716800:4000:5000 areallylongusername > edquota: areallylongusern: no such user > > Does anybody know what would it take to raise this limit to at least > 32 characters? Try bumping MAXLOGNAME in /usr/include/sys/param.h and UT_NAMESIZE in /usr/include/utmp.h and rebuilding world. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com