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Date:      Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:59:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Bob K <melange@yip.org>
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.4.02A.9903221258060.8781-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903221536570.18381-100000@pi.yip.org>

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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Bob K wrote:

> > > > 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:

  Of course.  Anything that touches wtmp/utmp needs to be rebuilt.

> Which kind of strikes me as being a slightly larger problem.

  Tiny probably actually.  Just edit adduser and change it.

Tom



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