At 10:46 AM 1/7/99 +0200, you wrote:
>I have an Suse Linux (5.2 with some patches and kernel updates). I want
>to have users names longer than 8 characters, but the useradd program
>does not allow longer names.
>
>As I saw in the useradd source files, the program takes the max length
>of hte user-name from a utmp.h header file, which indeed has a 8
>character restriction. How can I increase the length of the user name??
>Do I need to recompile the useradd sources with a changed utmp.h file???
>
>And what for is this utmp.h????
>
>
>Any help???
You can do this, but a whole host of other problems will prbably bite you.
See, other programs sometimes assume the 8 char limit as well, and if they
get more, they puke. FreeBSD has this problem as well and it's for the
same reason. Here is their explaination:
http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ226.html#226
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