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On Tue, 09 Dec 1997 21:40:02 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

>> 	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. :)

	D'oh!  I knew about sshd, but when I went to check on xterm a
while back I couldn't find the sources right off, so I  lost track.  I
installed X developer, but looking it over now, I can't figure out where
to get the sources for xterm, or anything else in the X distribution.

Pointers welcome, :)

Doug

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