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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!serv.hinet.net!spring.edu.tw!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-dc-10.sprintlink.net!atmnet.net!news.lightside.com!st-ursen.lightside.net!user From: fred@lightside.net (Fred Condo) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: userid > 8 chars: What is the truth? Date: Mon, 30 Dec 1996 23:17:31 -0800 Organization: Lightside, Inc. Lines: 98 Message-ID: <fred-3012962317310001@st-ursen.lightside.net> References: <32C7EA4E.2377B92F@sirene.woman.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: st-ursen.lightside.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-no-archive: yes Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33339 In article <32C7EA4E.2377B92F@sirene.woman.de>, "Nora E. Etukudo" <nora.e@sirene.woman.de> wrote: >Hello and a Happy New Year for all. > >In recent discussions mainly in 'comp.mail.sendmail' I read about the 8 >character limitation of usernames (userid's) in FreeBSD. Some said >there's a lot of stuff to recompile others ment thats 'telnet' and >'rlogin' only. > >In the near future I will get just this problem with usernames up to 15 >characters long. I've dropped all OS'es but FreeBSD from all systems for >which I've the authority. > >Am I lost? Have I, after all those lovely years beginning with FreeBSD >1.1.5.1, lastly to switch to Linux? > >Oh, Goddess of all BSD OS'es, please help. > >There are six or seven machines running FreeBSD 2.1 or greater. > >Liebe Grüße, Nora. >-- >| nora.e@sirene.woman.de Mailbox SIRENE im Frauen-Computer-Netzwerk | >| nora@frauen.im-Netz.de W O M A N - Women Only Mail And News | >| nora@services.de http://www.woman.de | This may help: Message-ID: <32853CA1.4AE2@wsg.net> Date: Sat, 09 Nov 1996 21:23:29 -0500 From: "David M. Fogarty" <chaos@wsg.net> Reply-To: chaos@wsg.net Organization: Web Services Group, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc To: Jimmy Tsang <jimmyt@beta> Subject: Re: Login name for FreeBSD References: <55uv2v$6d4@news.resolink.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.97.122.160 Lines: 46 Path: news.lightside.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!pull-feed.internetmci.com!ns2.wsg.net!206.97.122.160 Jimmy Tsang wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know how to make the login name longer than > 8 characters? > > Thanks in advance > Jimmy Tsang > In another post on a different topic I found this. I haven't tried it but since it came from Jordan I'd assume it works great. Good luck!! > > 2. More than a few have user names longer than 8 characters, I have read > > where you can recompile the kernel to allow for user names greater in > > You need to change UT_NAMESIZE in /usr/src/include/utmp.h and MAXLOGNAME > in /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h, then do a `make world' in /usr/src before > bringing the machine into service. Then populate your password file and > open the gates. > -- > - Jordan Hubbard > President, FreeBSD Project -Dave -- ~|~|_ _ | _ _ _| _ |` /~`|_ _ _ _ | | |(/_ |_(_)| (_| (_)~|~ \_,| |(_((_)_\ Ever been to the Realm of Chaos? Check it out!! http://www.wsg.net/~chaos | chaos@wsg.net -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzI+5/MAAAEEANEJ4sCRrHa/FmG/wmv2ngA//BDrsq7VbiyQQRUGu8UDEOL4 JuKdxEIZf+8w7e38Sy4sBzRHdUbW2+O66i0GfQ1l1fDadrmxmyjUjt9OYgoeLRa4 4eFa9H8pt9TJefFPc+xFckYUTNoIq/wFfulfRHoFSSC+AAOQ//zPtXxt0x0BAAUR tCBEYXZpZCBNLiBGb2dhcnR5IDxjaGFvc0B3c2cubmV0PokAlQMFEDJAa2H8z7V8 bdMdAQEB6fkEAL72UBqn2Y8r99pEQJKIiHrS2ln6TpFEgVqqfYLgVBIxMND1zQCX hJ5jV9Sh4KnZhUxUA/RQ4UwH1DZQiOz8ylg/XaEBTlykOSYAvEsvOHMYshrKXVRU MmPUFYTpoNoMGw/wUovarA/hJ0P+jqC72U2atTVR9D+WMiH+li8cFa+FtB9EYXZp ZCBNLiBGb2dhcnR5IDxkYXZlQHRiZS5uZXQ+ =7twh -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- -- http://www.lightside.net/~fred/ + net access + http://www.lightside.net/ "Attempts to control the use of encryption technology are wrong in principle, unworkable in practice, and damaging to the long term economic value of the information networks." - UK Labour Party