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Subject: Re: FreeBSD-3.0 Current - utmp 
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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 1997 21:40:02 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 	FWIW, I've been running -Stable with 16 char usernames, and I
> appear to be getting some corruption in utmp.  When I do 'last' it shows
> my 16 char name, but it also shows some weird high ascii characters. I
> deleted utmp and wtmp, and still have the same problems.

You sure you recompiled *everything* in -stable with 16 character
usernames?  I've seen people get bitten by both sshd and xterm,
forgetting that these optional packages also write utmp entries. :)

					Jordan