Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 08:44:27 +0200 (GMT) From: Robin Lunn <robin@is.co.za> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd@newtrend.com Subject: Re: Long login name questiony Message-ID: <199604040644.IAA28828@admin.is.co.za> In-Reply-To: <199604040518.WAA20941@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 3, 96 10:18:06 pm
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Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Hi, can someone tell me whether there is a way to use long login name (
> > longer than 8 characters ) since the adduser will take a login name of up to
> > 8 characters long.
>
> You much change a hearder file and recompile the world (much less than
> the world, actually, but compiling everything is easier than
> figuring out exactly what uses the manifest constant, and safer).
/usr/include/utmp.h line 48: #define UT_NAMESIZE is the one you want to
change. I recompiled the binary distribution only and have found no
problems.
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