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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Longer Usernames Date: 26 Feb 1996 01:57:47 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 17 Message-ID: <4gr0ib$bu@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Dn8vKI.9A1@ritz.mordor.com> <4gns5m$i5h@park.uvsc.edu> <DnBCG5.7IE@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: >Terry Lambert (terry@lambert.org) 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? <sys/param.h> #define's MAXLOGNAME to 12. <utmp.h> logs only UT_NAMESIZE == 8 of this. -- 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. ;-)