Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:39:07 -0500 (EST) From: Bob K <melange@yip.org> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, David Hawkins <dhawk@river.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 24-character usernames? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903221536570.18381-100000@pi.yip.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9903221222350.8781-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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> > > case of cat /dev/null>/var/run/utmp and cat /dev/null>/var/log/wtmp? > > > > Well, I gave this a try. No dice: > > You need to get lastlog too, and everyone needs to logout after you do > it. If you do it right, w will show nothing right after you do it. After > you log in, everything should be normal. I'm going to try rebuilding screen. But here's a note about adduser: pi# pwd /cudgel/src/usr.sbin/adduser pi# make clean rm -f adduser.8.gz rmuser.8.gz adduser.8.cat.gz rmuser.8.cat.gz pi# make gzip -cn /cudgel/src/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.8 > adduser.8.gz gzip -cn /cudgel/src/usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.8 > rmuser.8.gz pi# make install install -c -o root -g wheel -m 555 /cudgel/src/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.perl /usr/sbin/adduser install -c -o root -g wheel -m 555 /cudgel/src/usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.perl /usr/sbin/rmuser install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 adduser.8.gz rmuser.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8 pi# adduser Use option ``-verbose'' if you want see more warnings & questions or try to repair bugs. Enter username [a-z0-9_-]: test5678901234567890123 Username is longer than 16 chars Enter username [a-z0-9_-]: ^C Which kind of strikes me as being a slightly larger problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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