Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 10:14:59 -1000 (HST) From: "David Langford" <langfod@dihelix.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: jsuter@linus.intrastar.net, adam@veda.is, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: longer usernames Message-ID: <199704112014.KAA00555@caliban.dihelix.com> In-Reply-To: <14559.860781571@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Apr 11, 97 10:59:31 am"
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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
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