From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 22 12:59:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pop.uniserve.com (pop.uniserve.com [204.244.156.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1595214BD3 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:59:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca [204.244.186.218] by pop.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 1.82 #4) id 10PBn3-0001Qo-00; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:59:18 -0800 Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:59:15 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Bob K 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 On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Bob K wrote: > > > > 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: Of course. Anything that touches wtmp/utmp needs to be rebuilt. > Which kind of strikes me as being a slightly larger problem. Tiny probably actually. Just edit adduser and change it. Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message