Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 18:34:03 +0300 (EET DST) From: "Kaj J. Niemi" <kajtzu@final.dystopia.fi> To: erik@il.ft.HSE.NL, questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jos.Vissers@telebyte.NL, questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User name length limit increase Message-ID: <199610071534.SAA02235@final.dystopia.fi> In-Reply-To: <199610071442.QAA17951@charm.il.ft.hse.nl> from "Erik Manders" at Oct 7, 96 04:42:31 pm
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> Almost there, but not quite. You grab the sources (ALL of them), edit > UT_NAMESIZE in .../include/utmp.h and rebuild everything. After the > installation you might want to remove /var/run/utmp (i think) and > reboot. Remember that xterm probably will also need recompiling! So will > anything else that even looks at the utmp! That's because changing UT_* > changes sizeof(struct utmp) and sizeof(struct lastlog) which is kinda > important. Even though this _is_ technically possible a lot of programs will go FUBAR faster than you can say "OOPS" when doing the things mentioned above - ie. I wouldn't advise you (anybody for that matter) unless you're _very_ sure of what you're doing and have a deathwish... :-) just my .02, -- Kaj - kajtzu@iug.org - Pager 04800-30565 - http://www.iug.org/~kajtzu/ "Hey, I need a ride to the morgue.. but that's what E-911 is for!"
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