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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!sirius.ctr.columbia.edu!wpaul From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Longer Usernames Date: 25 Feb 1996 20:54:47 GMT Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 42 Message-ID: <4gqiao$63v@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> References: <Dn8vKI.9A1@ritz.mordor.com> <4gns5m$i5h@park.uvsc.edu> <DnBCG5.7IE@ritz.mordor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sirius.ctr.columbia.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. : : Note that this will break NIS interoperability, so it's not : : advisable. : Oh my god, not that! :-) Does anyone really use NIS? They better after all the work I've been putting into it. :) If all you have are FreeBSD machines, then you can safely modify all of them and still use NIS between them. If you have any other boxes that you can't change (due to lack of source code), then at best you'll have to create a seperate domain for them with 'normal' usernames. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= License error: The license for this .sig file has expired. You must obtain a new license key before any more witty phrases will appear in this space. =============================================================================