From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 15 13:52:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA07908 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 13:52:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA07783 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 13:51:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA11158 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:51:17 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA15390 for chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:51:17 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id WAA13534 for chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:37:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610152037.WAA13534@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 8 character login limit?! To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 22:37:41 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Oct 15, 96 12:04:19 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Doug White wrote: > Then let's build a doc on how to do this. > > 1. What does doing this BREAK? > - NIS last(1). You gotta throw away your old wtmp files, or leave the old last command as olast, or gotta build a tool that converts the wtmp files. Yep, i know a machine that's got wtmp files back some years ago (i believe). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)