From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 13 22:29:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA27316 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 22:29:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA27311 for ; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 22:29:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00310; Sun, 13 Oct 1996 22:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 22:27:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Christopher Taylor cc: Questions Subject: Re: 8 character login limit?! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 13 Oct 1996, Christopher Taylor wrote: > I am starting to get customers wanting login names longer than 8 > characters. I edited /usr/include/utmp.h, to accomodate 16 character > login names, and I recompiled everything. Now 'chown' is balking at me. > Are there any faq's out there to walk me through changing the limit to 16 > characters? If so, please send me the URL. TIA.... 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). Check out the questions archive for details... Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major