On Feb 24,  6:17pm, webmaster@datazap.net ("webmaster@datazap.net") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: using long usernames

make sure you rebuild from scratch [i.e. make clean first] because I don't
know if the dependencies are all handled properly (they should if you make
depend).

christos

| Hi,
| 
| The system would not boot on the kernel after making changes to
| mazlogname. I also made other changes to the kernel. So, I am going to
| build a generic kernel to see if that works. If i doesn't what should I
| do?
| 
| This server is being used for radius, mail, and web. And there would be a
| lot of people I would need to call to get them to change there username if
| I can't make this work. So, if someone has any other ideas please let me
| know.
| 
| Thanks,
| Al
| 
| 
| 
| 
| 
| On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, David Laight wrote:
| 
| > Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 22:31:14 +0000
| > From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
| > To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
| > Cc: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>, port-sparc@netbsd.org
| > Subject: Re: using long usernames
| >
| > > | netkey/key.c also uses MAXLOGNAME instead of LOGIN_NAME_MAX, but it
| > > | isn't clear it is a bug... so does sys/proc.h, kern/kern_sysctl.c, and
| > > | a bunch of other stuff...
| >
| > Some of those fields are not null terminated (in particular the s_login[]
| > field of the session structure).
| >
| > > | I must say, id-utils is a damn useful tool. :)
| > >
| > > I like grep :-)
| >
| > $ find . -name '*.[csSh]'|xargs grep '\<name\>'
| >
| > :-)
| >
| > 	David
| >
| > --
| > David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk
| >
| 
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