From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 22 12:38:49 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 52E9E14CAD for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:38:26 -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 PAA18457; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:39:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 15:39:07 -0500 (EST) From: Bob K To: Tom Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner , David Hawkins , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 24-character usernames? In-Reply-To: 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 > > > case of cat /dev/null>/var/run/utmp and cat /dev/null>/var/log/wtmp? > > > > Well, I gave this a try. No dice: > > You need to get lastlog too, and everyone needs to logout after you do > it. If you do it right, w will show nothing right after you do it. After > you log in, everything should be normal. I'm going to try rebuilding screen. But here's a note about adduser: pi# pwd /cudgel/src/usr.sbin/adduser pi# make clean rm -f adduser.8.gz rmuser.8.gz adduser.8.cat.gz rmuser.8.cat.gz pi# make gzip -cn /cudgel/src/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.8 > adduser.8.gz gzip -cn /cudgel/src/usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.8 > rmuser.8.gz pi# make install install -c -o root -g wheel -m 555 /cudgel/src/usr.sbin/adduser/adduser.perl /usr/sbin/adduser install -c -o root -g wheel -m 555 /cudgel/src/usr.sbin/adduser/rmuser.perl /usr/sbin/rmuser install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 adduser.8.gz rmuser.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8 pi# adduser Use option ``-verbose'' if you want see more warnings & questions or try to repair bugs. Enter username [a-z0-9_-]: test5678901234567890123 Username is longer than 16 chars Enter username [a-z0-9_-]: ^C Which kind of strikes me as being a slightly larger problem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message