From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 27 18:25:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17147 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:25:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.westbend.net (ns1.westbend.net [207.217.224.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA17115 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 18:25:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Received: from admin (admin.westbend.net [207.217.224.195]) by mail.westbend.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA03598 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:24:27 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Message-ID: <000f01bdd222$786751c0$c3e0d9cf@westbend.net> From: "Scot W. Hetzel" To: "FreeBSD-Stable" Subject: Re: Bumping MAXLOGNAME? Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 20:23:32 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0518.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0518.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Studded >Scot W. Hetzel wrote: > >> I have done this on several 2.2-STABLE systems. You'll need to patch >> adduser.perl, rmuser.perl, param.h, stdio.h, and utmp.h. > > I'm curious as to why you've had to patch stdio.h. I've been using 16 >char usernames on -Stable for a year now and never (TMK) ran into a >problem with it. > It was mentioned in one of the posts to the stable/questions list on how to set up 16 character usernames for 2.2-STABLE. And when reviewing stdio.h, it says that L_cuserid is supposed to be UT_NAMESIZE + 1, and to look at utmp.h for UT_NAMESIZE. Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message