Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 12:04:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> Cc: Christopher Taylor <freebsd@trogon.kiwi.net>, Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 8 character login limit?! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961015115433.314B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961015070021.464E-100000@toth.hq.ferg.com>
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On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Branson Matheson wrote:
> > > I am starting to get customers wanting login names longer than 8
> > > characters.
> > This IS a FAQ. But it's not IN the FAQ. :-/
> >
> > You don't want to do this. Things break, and in addition to changing
> > utmp.h, you have to recompile *everything* ('make world' style).
>
> GRRRRR... Here we go again... instead of saying there is too much the
> will need to be fixed to make this available... lets say, what is
> broken, chmod in this case, fix it and apply a change to the source
> tree. This question will CONTINUE to come up as more and more people
> use our product. We should not alienate those who want this feature
> just because it will break things.. lets fix the problem.
Then let's build a doc on how to do this.
1. What does doing this BREAK?
- NIS
1. What files do we need to modify?
- /usr/include/utmp.h
- login
- chmod
- chown
- more?
2. What do we change?
- utmp: UT_NAMESIZE
- login: ?
3. Now what?
- rebuild everything ('make world') and the kernel.
I know I missed something. I was looking through the archives and found
that the above programs needed modification.
Doug White | University of Oregon
Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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