From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 7 08:35:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA06164 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 08:35:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from final.dystopia.fi (root@final.dystopia.fi [194.100.42.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA06142; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 08:35:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from kajtzu@localhost) by final.dystopia.fi (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA02235; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 18:34:03 +0300 From: "Kaj J. Niemi" Message-Id: <199610071534.SAA02235@final.dystopia.fi> Subject: Re: User name length limit increase To: erik@il.ft.HSE.NL, questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 18:34:03 +0300 (EET DST) Cc: Jos.Vissers@telebyte.NL, questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Reply-To: kajtzu@iug.org In-Reply-To: <199610071442.QAA17951@charm.il.ft.hse.nl> from "Erik Manders" at Oct 7, 96 04:42:31 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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!"