Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 13:29:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com> To: jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com, tom@uniserve.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, jfarmer@goldsword.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, Studded@dal.net Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? Message-ID: <199709201729.NAA28866@sabre.goldsword.com>
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On Sat, 20 Sep 1997 00:45:37 -0700 (PDT) Tom said: >On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, John T. Farmer wrote: >> I have to agree with Tom. My clients _don't_ want to hear "You can have >> longer aliases but login names must be 8 charsacters or less." They >> don't care how it's implemented, they don't want to have to think about >> it. > > If it that important, make the change yourself. I've been doing this >change since before 2.1. I think this is finally starting to annoy me >enough to put together a release of 2.2-stable with longer usernames. > >> I know the core team is under pressure to to get 2.2.5 out the door, >> but would it not be possible for one of the _several_ individuals >> who have done the mods to their system to submit a patch kit to >> the core team for testing & possible inclusion? > > Why? The changes are in -current NOW. You can make the changes too, >see utmp.h, and param.h. I know them well, as I've patching them for 2+ >years now! Hummmmm. Teach me to respond at 3 "in the blessed am" morning! I have a new mail server for a client here on the table. Since they're one of the ones asking about usernames, etc., I think it's time to do a make world! (Got some other kernel kustomizing to do also.) I see in other followups, there is an issue about remaining compatible such that packages would build/work properly for all 2.2.x versions. My understanding was that this wasn't necessarily guaranteed? John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- John T. Farmer Proprietor, GoldSword Systems jfarmer@goldsword.com Public Internet Access in East Tennessee dial-in (423)470-9953 for info, e-mail to info@goldsword.com Network Design, Internet Services & Servers, Consulting
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