From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 15 12:04:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00606 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:04:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA00600 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:04:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA00339; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:04:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Branson Matheson cc: Christopher Taylor , Chat Subject: Re: 8 character login limit?! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Branson Matheson wrote: > > > I am starting to get customers wanting login names longer than 8 > > > characters. > > This IS a FAQ. But it's not IN the FAQ. :-/ > > > > You don't want to do this. Things break, and in addition to changing > > utmp.h, you have to recompile *everything* ('make world' style). > > GRRRRR... Here we go again... instead of saying there is too much the > will need to be fixed to make this available... lets say, what is > broken, chmod in this case, fix it and apply a change to the source > tree. This question will CONTINUE to come up as more and more people > use our product. We should not alienate those who want this feature > just because it will break things.. lets fix the problem. Then let's build a doc on how to do this. 1. What does doing this BREAK? - NIS 1. What files do we need to modify? - /usr/include/utmp.h - login - chmod - chown - more? 2. What do we change? - utmp: UT_NAMESIZE - login: ? 3. Now what? - rebuild everything ('make world') and the kernel. I know I missed something. I was looking through the archives and found that the above programs needed modification. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major