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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 1996 14:33:35 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Jos Vissers <Jos.Vissers@telebyte.nl>
Cc:        michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon), questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: User name length limit increase
Message-ID:  <199610081233.OAA00984@campa.panke.de>
In-Reply-To: <199610080912.LAA32726@monet.telebyte.nl>
References:  <Pine.BSI.3.93.961007161352.11878A-100000@sidhe.memra.com> <199610080912.LAA32726@monet.telebyte.nl>

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Jos Vissers writes:
>But increasing UT_NAMESIZE followed by a make world does appear to
>have worked. Now all I have to do is patch up who and w and the likes
>to make the output a bit more convenient.

The NIS protocol mandates an 8-character username.

--Wolfram Schneider <wosch@FreeBSD.org>



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