Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 09:58:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Cassandra Perkins <cassy@loop.com> To: "Jeff.Lynch-JORSM.Internet" <jeff@mercury.jorsm.com> Cc: Jos Vissers <Jos.Vissers@telebyte.nl>, questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User name length limit increase Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961007095804.18608J-100000@patty.loop.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961007093544.15003G-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
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I believe using NIS will allow you to increase your login name space. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Cassandra M. Perkins | People usually get what's coming to | | Network Operations | them... unless it's been mailed. | | The Loop Internet Switch Co., LLC | -fortune | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Jeff.Lynch-JORSM.Internet wrote: > On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Jos Vissers wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Can somebody please explain how to increase the user login name length > > limit. I would expect this to be some systemwide setting or at > > worst a definition in a header file. > > But I can't find anything except UT_NAMESIZE (8) in utmp.h. > > Increasing that and recompiling libc doesn't help a lot. > > > > Is it possible at all to increase this beyond 8 and if so, how? > > > > Thanks, Jos > > > > -- > > Jos Vissers, System administrator Telebyte > > > > DON'T DO IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Too much legacy code > out there won't work if you do. Keep this huge can of worms > closed. > > ========================================================================= > Jeffrey A. Lynch, President JORSM Internet > email: jeff@jorsm.com Northwest Indiana's Full-Service Provider > Voice: (219)322-2180 927 Sheffield Avenue, Dyer, IN 46311 > Autoresponse: info@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com > >
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