Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 22:27:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Christopher Taylor <freebsd@trogon.kiwi.net> Cc: Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 8 character login limit?! Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.961013222435.261E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961013174043.19625A-100000@trogon.kiwi.net>
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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
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