From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 10:02:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA11116 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:02:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA11099; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:02:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patty.loop.net (patty.loop.net [204.179.169.20]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id KAA06637 ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cassy@localhost) by patty.loop.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA19938; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:58:31 -0700 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:58:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Cassandra Perkins X-Sender: cassy@patty.loop.net To: "Jeff.Lynch-JORSM.Internet" cc: Jos Vissers , questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User name length limit increase In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I believe using NIS will allow you to increase your login name space. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Cassandra M. Perkins | People usually get what's coming to | | Network Operations | them... unless it's been mailed. | | The Loop Internet Switch Co., LLC | -fortune | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Jeff.Lynch-JORSM.Internet wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Jos Vissers wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Can somebody please explain how to increase the user login name length > > limit. I would expect this to be some systemwide setting or at > > worst a definition in a header file. > > But I can't find anything except UT_NAMESIZE (8) in utmp.h. > > Increasing that and recompiling libc doesn't help a lot. > > > > Is it possible at all to increase this beyond 8 and if so, how? > > > > Thanks, Jos > > > > -- > > Jos Vissers, System administrator Telebyte > > > > DON'T DO IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Too much legacy code > out there won't work if you do. Keep this huge can of worms > closed. > > ========================================================================= > Jeffrey A. Lynch, President JORSM Internet > email: jeff@jorsm.com Northwest Indiana's Full-Service Provider > Voice: (219)322-2180 927 Sheffield Avenue, Dyer, IN 46311 > Autoresponse: info@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com > >