Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 19:53:05 -0700 (PDT) From: brian@mediacity.com To: freebsd@trogon.kiwi.net (Christopher Taylor) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8 character login limit?! Message-ID: <19961017025305.2235.qmail@mediacity.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961013174043.19625A-100000@trogon.kiwi.net> from Christopher Taylor at "Oct 13, 96 05:43:10 pm"
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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.... I changed UT_NAMESIZE in utmp.h and L_cuserid in stdio.h and have not noticed any problems with chown. # ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 brianbythesea1 bin 0 Oct 16 19:50 foo # chown brianbythesea2 foo # ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 brianbythesea2 bin 0 Oct 16 19:50 foo brian@mediacity.com
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