Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 22:08:02 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 24-character usernames? Message-ID: <199903222108.WAA18769@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Bob K wrote in list.freebsd-stable:
> I recently wanted to try out 24-character usernames on my system. So,
> following the man page for adduser, I changed UT_NAMESIZE in
> /usr/include/utmp.h to 24 from the default of 16. I then changed
> MAXLOGNAME in /usr/include/sys/param.h to 25, as per the comments in both
> utmp.h and param.h. I then made buildworld && make installworld (-j4 -O
> -pipe only) and a new kernel (-O -pipe), and then built the various ports
> that would need it.
Did you change it in /usr/include only? If I'm not mistaken,
you have to change it in /usr/src/include before doing a make
world (otherwise it doesn't really take effect).
Regards
Oliver
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