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To: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com>
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Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 20 Sep 1997 03:44:06 EDT."
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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 06:04:44 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> I know the core team is under pressure to to get 2.2.5 out the door,

Our decision to avoid this change has nothing to do with time
pressures.  It has to do with prudence.

> but would it not be possible for one of the _several_ individuals
> who have done the mods to their system to submit a patch kit to 
> the core team for testing & possible inclusion?

Here, enjoy. :-)

Index: sys/sys/param.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/sys/param.h,v
retrieving revision 1.15.2.2
diff -u -r1.15.2.2 param.h
--- param.h	1996/12/15 09:54:28	1.15.2.2
+++ param.h	1997/09/20 13:04:06
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 
 #define	MAXCOMLEN	16		/* max command name remembered */
 #define	MAXINTERP	32		/* max interpreter file name length */
-#define	MAXLOGNAME	12		/* max login name length */
+#define	MAXLOGNAME	17		/* max login name length */
 #define	MAXUPRC		CHILD_MAX	/* max simultaneous processes */
 #define	NCARGS		ARG_MAX		/* max bytes for an exec function */
 #define	NGROUPS		NGROUPS_MAX	/* max number groups */
Index: include/utmp.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/include/utmp.h,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 utmp.h
--- utmp.h	1996/10/27 18:13:35	1.2
+++ utmp.h	1997/09/20 13:03:42
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 #define	_PATH_WTMP	"/var/log/wtmp"
 #define	_PATH_LASTLOG	"/var/log/lastlog"
 
-#define	UT_NAMESIZE	8	/* see MAXLOGNAME in <sys/param.h> */
+#define	UT_NAMESIZE	16	/* see MAXLOGNAME in <sys/param.h> */
 #define	UT_LINESIZE	8
 #define	UT_HOSTSIZE	16