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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.new-york.net!ritz.mordor.com!ritz From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) Subject: Re: Longer Usernames X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Lines: 26 Organization: Mordor International Message-ID: <DnDz8G.7no@ritz.mordor.com> References: <Dn8vKI.9A1@ritz.mordor.com> <4gns5m$i5h@park.uvsc.edu> <DnBCG5.7IE@ritz.mordor.com> <4gqiao$63v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 14:07:28 GMT Bill Paul (wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu) wrote: : Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Chris Mauritz : (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) had the courage to say: : : : Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) wrote: : : : ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) wrote: : : : ] : : : ] Is there a relatively easy <grin> way to allow the use of : : : ] longer userids using FreeBSD 2.1? : : : : : : Change one header file and recompiler verything that includes it. : : : Which header file? : : If I'm not mistaken, /usr/include/utmp.h. UT_NAMESIZE is #defined : to be 8 there. You'll need to increase it to whatever value : you need. There are libraries (including libc) that use this header, : which means the changes involved are non-trivial. hrm....I made the change and did a make world, but it still doesn't seem to work. For starters, chown is very unhappy about the longer names. Sigh... Regards, Chris -- Christopher Mauritz | For info on internet access: ritz@mordor.com | finger/mail info@ritz.mordor.com OR Mordor International | http://www.mordor.com/ 201/212/718 internet access | Modem: (201)433-7343,(212)843-3451