From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 23 6:44:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pi.yip.org (yip.org [142.154.6.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F5EE14FA7 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 06:44:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by pi.yip.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id JAA30322 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:46:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 09:46:26 -0500 (EST) From: Bob K To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 24-character usernames? In-Reply-To: <199903222108.WAA18769@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Oliver Fromme wrote: > 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). Ah. I think I did after the 2nd cvsup. One thing to note is that changing it in /usr/src/include is mentioned in the handbook, but not in the manpages for adduser (which only mentions making the world). I'll cvsup today and make world again after making totally sure I have that in there before starting. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message