Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 00:07:32 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Info: 16 char usernames in 2.2-Stable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971117000532.9641Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199711152115.NAA25128@mail.san.rr.com>
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On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Studded wrote: > A while ago there was a discussion about moving the ability to > work with more than 8 character usernames in the 2.2 branch. I decided to > give it a go on my test system, and it's working fine. I thought I'd pass > this info on in case anyone else is interested in trying it. The change was made in -CURRENT ages ago, but wasn't backported to 2.2 since it's a major change. If you make the change you must `make world' again and expect to loose utmp/wtmp/other username-length-based files. This includes rebuilding X since xlogin only recognizes 8 char usernames. Some other programs may have hard-coded values. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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