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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.inc.net!news.us.world.net!ns2.mainstreet.net!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!nmia!gallup.cia-g.com!lithium From: Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: UserID size Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:37:09 -0600 Organization: New Mexico Internet Access Lines: 38 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960718113614.10245B-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> References: <4rt4mr$ah3@barracuda.pelican.net> <4rv0c5$4ci@jraynard.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: gallup.cia-g.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <4rv0c5$4ci@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Won't this cause more problems than it's worth? With unix utils and 3rd party programs? On 10 Jul 1996, James Raynard wrote: > In article <4rt4mr$ah3@barracuda.pelican.net>, > Stephen C. West-Fisher <steve@pelican.net> wrote: > >I'd like to try to modify FreeBSD to allow userids longer than 8 > >characters. I've looked around some and can't find where it's > >limiting them to 8 characters. Could someone point me in the right > >direction? > > This can be done, although quite as conveniently as you might > expect. The problem is a number of binaries (including a few you might > not have thought of) depend on this, so you basically need to remake > the whole lot. It may also cause problems if you use NIS to > communicate with non-FreeBSD machines. > > Edit the line in /usr/src/include/utmp.h that says > > #define UT_NAMESIZE 8 > > and do 'make world' in /usr/src. (Warning: this will take something > like 3-4 hours on a P166 with lots of RAM). > > -- > James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland > james@jraynard.demon.co.uk > http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/ > > - Steve - Systems Manager - Community Internet Access - http://www.cia-g.com