From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 7 10:03:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA11193 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:03:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from house.multinet.net (house.multinet.net [204.138.173.37]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA11188 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 10:03:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from graydon@localhost) by house.multinet.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA09844; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 13:03:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 13:03:44 -0400 (EDT) From: "Graydon Hoare ()" To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User name length limit increase In-Reply-To: <199610071534.SAA02235@final.dystopia.fi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Kaj J. Niemi wrote: > > 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... :-) Hmm... hasn't been my experience. I've been running with 11 char usernames for some time without things blowing up. Now, mind you, it's just a mailbox & kerb. system, but popper, login, kinit, sendmail, bash etc all seem to work OK (after the implicit make-world I did). I've heard warnings about going beyond 12 characters as breaking something, but have never experienced it. Which programs break? This is something a lot of people want -- maybe instead of dire predictions we should just fix it. after all... Windows can do it (restrain flames, I'm as unixey as they next guy) -graydon