Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:56:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Jade <jade@fusetec.com> Cc: Freebsd-Isp <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Modifying MAXLOGNAME ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.990727145512.29565M-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <001501bed889$29597400$1600000a@winky.fusetec.com>
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We routinely use 32 byte user names with UT_NAMESIZE==32 and MAXLOGNAME == 33 On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Jade wrote: > I've done it on FBSD 2.x machines. I also had to modify the command w's > report headers and recompile but that's it. I had no other problems. > > -- Jade > -- Fuse Technologies, Inc. > -- http://www.fusetec.com/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Kurt Jaeger > > Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 1999 2:01 PM > > To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Modifying MAXLOGNAME ? > > > > > > Hi! > > > > Anyone ever changed > > > > MAXLOGNAME > > > > as defined in utmp.h: > > #define UT_NAMESIZE 16 > > > > and in sys/param.h: * MAXLOGNAME should be == UT_NAMESIZE+1 (see <utmp.h>) > > > > sys/param.h:#define MAXLOGNAME 17 (includes NUL byte) > > > > and apparently in sys/acct.h and sys/proc.h and sys/user.h ? > > > > I want to increase this. Maybe to, say, 64 chars instead of 16. > > > > Suggestions ? > > > > -- > > MfG/Best regards, Kurt Jaeger 21 > > years to go ! > > LF.net GmbH pi@LF.net Oberon.net GmbH pi@oberon.net > > Vor dem Lauch 23 fon +49 711 90074-23 Friedrich-Ebert-Str.1 > > D-70567 Stuttgart fax +49 711 7289041 40210 Duesseldorf fon +49 > > 211 179253-11 > > For Redmond: "nuke the site from orbit -- it's the only way to be sure." > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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