Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Sep 1999 08:26:36 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: long username |
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On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, ywlee wrote:
> hi, > does anyone know where to change in the kernel source, so that the > allowable username can be more than the current 8 characters? > The username is never sent to the kernel! /bin/login uses the username and password. By the time a new process is created, the GID and UID has been extracted from /etc/passwd. This is all the kernel 'knows'.
Cheers, Dick Johnson **** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED **** Penguin : Linux version 2.3.13 on an i686 machine (400.59 BogoMips). Warning : It's hard to remain at the trailing edge of technology.
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