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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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