Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 16:42:31 +0200 (MET DST) From: Erik Manders <erik@il.ft.HSE.NL> To: Jos.Vissers@telebyte.NL (Jos Vissers) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User name length limit increase Message-ID: <199610071442.QAA17951@charm.il.ft.hse.nl> In-Reply-To: <199610071319.PAA07276@monet.telebyte.nl>
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After long consideration, Jos Vissers uttered the following:
> Hello,
>
> Can somebody please explain how to increase the user login name length
> limit. I would expect this to be some systemwide setting or at
> worst a definition in a header file.
> But I can't find anything except UT_NAMESIZE (8) in utmp.h.
> Increasing that and recompiling libc doesn't help a lot.
Almost there, but not quite. You grab the sources (ALL of them), edit
UT_NAMESIZE in .../include/utmp.h and rebuild everything. After the
installation you might want to remove /var/run/utmp (i think) and
reboot. Remember that xterm probably will also need recompiling! So will
anything else that even looks at the utmp! That's because changing UT_*
changes sizeof(struct utmp) and sizeof(struct lastlog) which is kinda
important.
>
> Is it possible at all to increase this beyond 8 and if so, how?
Sure! I've changed UT_HOSTSIZE to 48 for instance. See above!
>
> Thanks, Jos
>
> --
> Jos Vissers, System administrator Telebyte
>
>
Erik Manders erik@il.ft.hse.nl
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