Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 07:32:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: Christopher Taylor <freebsd@trogon.kiwi.net>, Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 8 character login limit?! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961015070021.464E-100000@toth.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961013222435.261E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Doug White wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Christopher Taylor wrote:
>
> > I am starting to get customers wanting login names longer than 8
> > characters. I edited /usr/include/utmp.h, to accomodate 16 character
> > login names, and I recompiled everything. Now 'chown' is balking at me.
> > Are there any faq's out there to walk me through changing the limit to 16
> > characters? If so, please send me the URL. TIA....
>
> This IS a FAQ. But it's not IN the FAQ. :-/
>
> You don't want to do this. Things break, and in addition to changing
> utmp.h, you have to recompile *everything* ('make world' style).
GRRRRR... Here we go again... instead of saying there is too much the
will need to be fixed to make this available... lets say, what is
broken, chmod in this case, fix it and apply a change to the source
tree. This question will CONTINUE to come up as more and more people
use our product. We should not alienate those who want this feature
just because it will break things.. lets fix the problem.
-branson
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