conf/96589: Periodic monthly invalid times with 32 character usernames

[Jilles Tjoelker]

The following reply was made to PR conf/96589; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles at stack.nl>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, dave at canadian.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: conf/96589: Periodic monthly invalid times with 32 character
	usernames
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 16:08:31 +0200

 > [Changing MAXLOGNAME and UT_NAMESIZE to 32]
 
 My guess is: after installing the new programs, you need to truncate
 utmp, wtmp and lastlog. All these files consist of fixed-length records
 defined by utmp.h, so changing that will break them. wtmp is most
 affected.
 
 If/when utmp is replaced by utmpx, this should be fixed too.
 
 -- 
 Jilles Tjoelker