Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 08:26:20 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Clapper <bmc@WillsCreek.COM> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: username length Message-ID: <199711171326.IAA09345@current.willscreek.com> In-Reply-To: <13749602@toto.iv>
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Studded <Studded@dal.net> wrote:
> A while ago there was a discussion about moving the ability to
> work with more than 8 character usernames in the 2.2 branch. I decided to
> give it a go on my test system, and it's working fine. I thought I'd pass
> this info on in case anyone else is interested in trying it.
[ snip ]
> So far everything seems pretty happy with the 16 character names.
> The ps has a problem with lining things up, and gnuls truncates the names
> to 8. Anyone have a suggestion about gnuls? I really like it, but not
> seeing the whole uid/gid is getting confusing. :)
I maintain the gnuls port. The offending code would seem to be around line
2121 in "ls.c":
if (numeric_users)
sprintf (p, "%-8u ", (unsigned int) f->stat.st_uid);
else
sprintf (p, "%-8.8s ", getuser (f->stat.st_uid));
You might try doing a 'make extract' and 'make patch' on the gnuls port,
then modifying that section of code to look like this:
if (numeric_users)
sprintf (p, "%-*u ", MAXLOGNAME - 2, (unsigned int) f->stat.st_uid);
else
sprintf (p, "%-*.*s ", MAXLOGNAME - 2, MAXLOGNAME - 2,
getuser (f->stat.st_uid));
Then rebuild the port. If it works, let me know, and I'll add it to the
list of patches in the port; better yet, just send me a `diff -c' on
"ls.c". I'd try it here, but it wouldn't prove anything, since I'm using
stock 2.2.2-RELEASE on my systems.
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Brian Clapper, bmc@WillsCreek.COM, http://WWW.WillsCreek.COM/
An NT server can be run by an idiot, and usually is.
- Tom Holub <doosh@best.com>
(Posted to comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix on 03 Sep 1997)
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