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#! rnews 1165 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!nntp.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: >8 Character Login Names Date: Fri, 15 Nov 1996 15:23:35 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 12 Message-ID: <328CFB77.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <slrn458kumj.89u.daver@wpi.WPI.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: Dave Costantino <daver@wpi.WPI.EDU> Dave Costantino wrote: > names greater than 8 characters in length? My intuiton tells me I need > to locate a few #defines in some header files and recompile everything, but > I'm afraid it might be more involved. Your intuition is correct. See /usr/include/utmp.h's definition of UT_NAMESIZE and follow the instructions you'll see there. 2 files changed and you're ready to remake the world. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project