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Date:      Sat, 11 Mar 2000 18:15:09 -0800
From:      Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org>
To:        Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
Cc:        Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>, Danny <dannyh@idx.com.au>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Long User name problem
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.20000311181245.0281b138@mail.cpl.net>
In-Reply-To: <38CAA855.28886FFE@gorean.org>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003102159270.9685-100000@ren.sasknow.com> <4.2.0.58.20000311014152.028d1688@mail.cpl.net>

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At 12:11 PM 3/11/2000 -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
>Shawn Ramsey wrote:
>
> > Well, crap. It appears LOGINS work. I swear it didn't when I posted that
> > message. Oh well. The main problem seems to be FTP logins to not work. If I
> > change it to the standard FTP server it does, but wu-ftpd which is the FTP
> > we use does not. I guess I should try recompiling wu-ftpd first, and go
> > from there. The cd command also does not work suchj as cd
> > ~longusernamehere. Email with long user names seem to be working ok.
>
>         I would recompile everything that is not working. It probably 
> needs to
>pick up the new values for username length from the header files on your
>new system. Also, make sure there are no old header files or libraries
>around to confuse your apps.
>
>Glad to hear you're making progress,


FTP now works. TCSH seems to be about the only thing not working properly 
now. I tried recompiling it. The command cd ~username doesn't work, not a 
big deal I would think, but still would be nice to fix.





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