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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.seinf.abb.se!nooft.abb.no!Norway.EU.net!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!barracuda.pelican.net!usenet From: steve@pelican.net (Stephen C. West-Fisher) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: UserID size Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 22:11:09 GMT Organization: Pelican Net Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4smcpo$9rq@barracuda.pelican.net> References: <4rt4mr$ah3@barracuda.pelican.net> <4rv0c5$4ci@jraynard.demon.co.uk> <Pine.LNX.3.91.960718113614.10245B-100000@gallup.cia-g.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mullet.pelican.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com> wrote: >Won't this cause more problems than it's worth? With unix utils and 3rd >party programs? >On 10 Jul 1996, James Raynard wrote: >> Edit the line in /usr/src/include/utmp.h that says >> >> #define UT_NAMESIZE 8 Actually, you also need to change something in sys/param.h. We just remade all the libraries and that took care of our problem. We just needed to su to long names. I don't think it will break anything, look at the examples in the man pages, they show long usernames. We haven't yet had any problems. Steve Steve@pelican.net