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Subject: Re: longer usernames
In-Reply-To: <14559.860781571@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Apr 11, 97 10:59:31 am"
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:14:59 -1000 (HST)
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From: "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com>
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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
>

I remember this being discussed a little while ago but I dont recall the 
specifics.
What are the gotchas for changing the utmp.h file and doing a make world.

Will FreeBSD t FreeBSD YP work? Sendmail, csh, tcsh etc....

Thanks,

-David Langford
 langfod@dihelix.com