Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:07:39 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd@trogon.kiwi.net, branson@widomaker.com (Branson Matheson) Subject: Re: 8 character login limit?! Message-ID: <199610152007.WAA13032@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961015070021.464E-100000@toth.hq.ferg.com> from Branson Matheson at "Oct 15, 96 07:32:23 am"
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As Branson Matheson wrote:
> > 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.
The problem is, that ``fixing the problem'' will break interoperab-
ility via NIS, and backwards compatibility to old wtmp files
(aka. last(1)). That's why it's hard to find a majority of developers
who support your opinion. Actually, only very few sites (mostly ISPs)
are in a need for the change.
Right now, our wtmp files are backwards compatible most likely even
to 386BSD 0.1, but at least (as i know for sure) to FreeBSD 1.1.5.1.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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