Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 06:04:44 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com> Cc: tom@uniserve.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, jfarmer@goldsword.com, Studded@dal.net Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? Message-ID: <27009.874760684@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 20 Sep 1997 03:44:06 EDT." <199709200744.DAA28038@sabre.goldsword.com>
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> I know the core team is under pressure to to get 2.2.5 out the door, Our decision to avoid this change has nothing to do with time pressures. It has to do with prudence. > but would it not be possible for one of the _several_ individuals > who have done the mods to their system to submit a patch kit to > the core team for testing & possible inclusion? Here, enjoy. :-) Index: sys/sys/param.h =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/sys/param.h,v retrieving revision 1.15.2.2 diff -u -r1.15.2.2 param.h --- param.h 1996/12/15 09:54:28 1.15.2.2 +++ param.h 1997/09/20 13:04:06 @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ #define MAXCOMLEN 16 /* max command name remembered */ #define MAXINTERP 32 /* max interpreter file name length */ -#define MAXLOGNAME 12 /* max login name length */ +#define MAXLOGNAME 17 /* max login name length */ #define MAXUPRC CHILD_MAX /* max simultaneous processes */ #define NCARGS ARG_MAX /* max bytes for an exec function */ #define NGROUPS NGROUPS_MAX /* max number groups */ Index: include/utmp.h =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/include/utmp.h,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.2 utmp.h --- utmp.h 1996/10/27 18:13:35 1.2 +++ utmp.h 1997/09/20 13:03:42 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ #define _PATH_WTMP "/var/log/wtmp" #define _PATH_LASTLOG "/var/log/lastlog" -#define UT_NAMESIZE 8 /* see MAXLOGNAME in <sys/param.h> */ +#define UT_NAMESIZE 16 /* see MAXLOGNAME in <sys/param.h> */ #define UT_LINESIZE 8 #define UT_HOSTSIZE 16
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