From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 22 15:11:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA29943 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 15:11:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dt050n33.san.rr.com (@dt053nd2.san.rr.com [204.210.34.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA29928 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 15:11:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Received: from san.rr.com (Studded@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dt050n33.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA09576; Fri, 22 May 1998 15:11:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Studded@san.rr.com) Message-ID: <3565F80C.59FC1DCC@san.rr.com> Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 15:11:24 -0700 From: Studded Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE-0507 i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lrios CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: User Names > 8 characters References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG lrios wrote: > > Is there anyway way to increase the Username length beyond eight > characters?? Any help would be appreciated.... Assuming you're talking about FreeBSD -Stable: What you need to do is edit /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h and change MAXLOGNAME to 18. Then go to /usr/src/include/utmp.h and change UT_NAMESIZE to 16. Now make the world, when that's done make a new kernel. I would back up, then delete wtmp and utmp since the new username size will corrupt both files. Also, if you have other software installed that accesses usernames (ssh and xterm are the most common) you will want to recompile and reinstall it. That's all there is to it. There are some things in -Stable and -Current that need to be twiddled to make this really clean though. Those things won't affect the functionality of your system though, just the aesthetics. Good luck, Doug -- *** Chief Operations Officer, DALnet IRC network *** *** Proud designer and maintainer of one of the world's largest *** Internet Relay Chat server with 5,328 simultaneous connections *** Try spider.dal.net on ports 6662-4 (Powered by FreeBSD) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message