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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: When is 2.2R due out?
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 21:19:03 -0700
Organization: Me
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Ken Bigelow wrote:
] Louis Epstein wrote:
] > But doesn't this lose you your own recompiles?
] > I've enabled 12-character UserIDs on my system,
] > wouldn't want the default 8 coming back every
] > time.I expect my upgrades to be stable release
] > versions.
]
] All right, I don't mind admitting I'm relatively new to both
] Unix and to FreeBSD. Could you please enlighten me on how you
] extended UserIDs to more than 8 characters? I found the check
] in the adduser program, but even when I changed that it didn't
] work right. What else do I need to do, pray tell?
]
] I'm starting a new FreeBSD-powered WebSite and would like to
] be able to bypass this limit.
This is in the FAQ and in the handbook.
You do it by changing a header file and recompiling everything
that uses hte constant.
When you do this, you break NIS interoperability; basically, you
can kiss it goodbye. This is an inherenet limit in NIS that can't
change without changing the wire protocol.
Without NIS, you can pretty much kiss NFS goodbye.
Are you sure you want to do this? If so, go to www.freebsd.org
and look up the FAQ entry. It's not something I'd like to see
become popular. 8-(.
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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