Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:59:31 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Jacob Suter <jsuter@linus.intrastar.net> Cc: Adam David <adam@veda.is>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: longer usernames Message-ID: <14559.860781571@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:47:23 CDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970411114652.5066A-100000@linus.intrastar.net>
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> It would appear it support 16 charector limits right now on my stock > 2.2.1r boxes. I haven't tested it though. Uh, no. ;-) If you look at /usr/include/utmp.h, you'll see it's still 8 characters. I'm not sure if we'll go to longer usernames in the 2.2 branch because it would be a big transition headache for everyone, but it's certainly there in 3.0 (which will already probably be a transition headache for different reasons, so it doesn't really matter :-) Jordan
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