From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 12 00:05:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA03773 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:05:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA03760 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:05:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA05542; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:04:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 00:04:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Alex Helbig cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Increasing Login ID Length In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980810145932.00a7d830@ada.somerville.qld.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Alex Helbig wrote: > A quick search of the mail archives results in > > What limits the length of user logins to 8 characters and how might this > > be changed? We need 15 or more. > > Modify the header file and rebuild the world. > > --------end snip > > Q. Which header files need to be modified in 2.2.7-RELEASE? You don't want to do this. It has larger ramifications than you may be aware of. Use -CURRENT if you really need long usernames. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message