Hi,

What do I need to tweak before I recompile?

Thanks,
Al




On 24 Feb 2003, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> Date: 24 Feb 2003 12:31:42 -0500
> From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
> To: "webmaster@datazap.net" <webmaster@datazap.net>
> Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org, port-sparc@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: using long usernames
>
>
> "webmaster@datazap.net" <webmaster@datazap.net> writes:
> > I set up a machine running NetBSD 1.6 on a Sparc station 20. I then
> > migrated all the users from a mandrake linux system to it. The problem I
> > am having is there are a large number of users that have user names of 17
> > characters or more. In NetBSD I am only able to get people with user names
> > of 16 characters or less to work.
>
> That is correct. We only support 16 characters or less as shipped. You
> could tweak a few things and recompile your whole system, at the cost
> of being somewhat ABI incompatible with other people's machines.
>
> Perry
>