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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!le From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: Patch for >8 char ID's X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] X-Nntp-Posting-User: le Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <DqI2yn.Dzv@news2.new-york.net> References: <4ljlef$aa6@presence.lglobal.com> <4lma8r$s7o@uriah.heep.sax.de> <DqEuxC.9z9@ritz.mordor.com> X-Trace: 830573949/16278 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Sat, 27 Apr 1996 02:59:11 GMT Lines: 27 Chris Mauritz (ritz@ritz.mordor.com) wrote: : J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : : drop@presence.lglobal.com (Colin P. Ryan) writes: : : >I'm looking for patches to 2.1.0 -RELEASE that will allow : : >for user id's of longer than 8 characters. The archive mentions : : >something about it being in the handbook but grepping finds no such : : >reference. : : > : : >Could someone point the way to the patch or proper modifications? : : : : <utmp.h> defines UT_NAMESIZE to 8. Changing this will make your : : existing utmp and wtmp files useless, but should not affect anything : : else. : : : : <sys/param.h> defines MAXLOGNAME to 12. I have no idea what might : : break when you change it, but you will at least need a full ``make : : world''. : I tried this not long ago and it seemed to work ok, but it broke : a number of utilities (after the make world), most notably RADIUS. : I didn't have time to play with it at the time so I didn't really : look at radius to see why it was so unhappy...it was easier to : just put things back to 8 chars. :) Radius(at least Livingston's) expects the username and the password to add up to no more than 16 characters.Not sure how to patch this!