Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 13:56:44 -0500 () From: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Ugh...long usernames Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.3.95.961203134718.-365809H-100000@swoosh.dunn.org>
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Hi. We have a BSD/OS box that we are going to be switching over to FreeBSD. There are about 100 logins on the BSD/OS box that are over 8 characters in length. After thinking this over, I have decided that getting all of those people to change their login names would be a tech. support nightmare. So that is not an option. The long names must stay. (Yes I know about sendmail aliases; no that is not an option because having the login name different from the email address is also a support nightmare.) >From discussions held on this matter in the past, my understanding is that UT_NAMESIZE in <utmp.h> and MAXLOGNAME in <sys/param.h> are the numbers to change. So I change both of those numbers to 16, make the world, and hope everything works. Any caveats? I know this breaks NIS interoperability, but NIS between FreeBSD boxes will still work, correct? Thanks. -BD
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