Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:06:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: kajtzu@iug.org Cc: erik@il.ft.HSE.NL, questions@freebsd.org, Jos.Vissers@telebyte.NL, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User name length limit increase Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961007120113.10051A-100000@toth.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: <199610071534.SAA02235@final.dystopia.fi>
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On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Kaj J. Niemi wrote: > > Almost there, but not quite. You grab the sources (ALL of them), edit > > UT_NAMESIZE in .../include/utmp.h and rebuild everything. After the > > installation you might want to remove /var/run/utmp (i think) and > > reboot. Remember that xterm probably will also need recompiling! So will > > anything else that even looks at the utmp! That's because changing UT_* > > changes sizeof(struct utmp) and sizeof(struct lastlog) which is kinda > > important. > > Even though this _is_ technically possible a lot of programs will go > FUBAR faster than you can say "OOPS" when doing the things mentioned > above - ie. I wouldn't advise you (anybody for that matter) unless > you're _very_ sure of what you're doing and have a deathwish... :-) This is SILLY. Yes it might break some things.. and yes you should know what you are doing when you do this.. but its dumb to limit youself just because legacy code has a problem.. most other OS's have made this change.. and I do NOT see why we should not. If legacy code is the problem then lets FIX it. Beyond that .. I have made this change on three machines before.. and yes I had to re-compile code for it to work... but if we do it on a RELEASE with all the packages re-compiled.. It should work. and It does work for me... raidusd works with long usernames, yp works too. It's like saying that I have all these nice new carbeurators for my cars that will make them work better and faster .. but I don't want to put it on this one car because it won't fit on the old intake. Gimme a break.. replace the intake! -branson ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?
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