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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: userid > 8 chars: What is the truth? Date: 2 Jan 1997 14:19:01 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5agg4l$6fa@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32C7EA4E.2377B92F@sirene.woman.de> <fred-3012962317310001@st-ursen.lightside.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33498 > > You need to change UT_NAMESIZE in /usr/src/include/utmp.h and MAXLOGNAME > > in /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h, then do a `make world' in /usr/src before > > bringing the machine into service. Then populate your password file and > > open the gates. UT_NAMESIZE has recently been increased in FreeBSD 3.0-current. Of course, this finally triggered all the problems that arise out of this. Firstly, your old wtmp files will become incompatible. There's a small program under src/tools/3.0-upgrade in the source tree to help the transition. Then, at least the following packages of third-party software are now known to write directly to utmp or wtmp files: xdm, xterm, wu-ftpd, mgetty. You need to recompile them as well. -- 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. ;-)