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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!server2.rz.uni-leipzig.de!news1.urz.tu-dresden.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DNS, FTP & Mail - for ISP Date: 21 Oct 1995 21:39:26 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <46blpu$isb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <44mmsd$1lda@news.gate.net> <45vr22$101@uriah.heep.sax.de> <466klr$oog@tzlink.j51.com> <DGq0Cx.AFB@ritz.mordor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Chris Mauritz <ritz@ritz.mordor.com> wrote: >: OK,so if FreeBSD is immune to this alleged generic Unix problem,how about >: user names more than 8 characters long? > >I haven't checked. I know they've fixed this on BSDI 2.0, but I'm not >sure about the FreeBSD folk. It's still 8, but you've got the source. :-) Bumping it to 10 (for example) would be fairly easy, but it would as well invalidate all existing wtmp files. This kind of backwards incompatibility is not the thing somebody really wants to cause without any urgent reason. (By now, for example sax.sax.de's ``last'' logs reach back for about one year, when the machine was still running 1.1.5.1.) Simply watch for the definition of UT_NAMESIZE in <utmp.h>, and L_cuserid in <stdio.h>. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)