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Thanks, and I've read both of those, but I was looking more for information about actually doing a p2v migration of an existing FreeBSD system. Actually a v2v. I have a VMWare VM that started at 5.0 and is currently running 9.9. Its configuration has been highly modified over the years and I'd...

I was just able to ssh in as that user, but su still doesn't work. Must just be a bug with su, my bad for bothering your time sir. Thanks for taking the time to help a fellow brother out though! Much appreciated!

Also for some reason /usr/include/sys/param.h has maxlogname set to 17 but a read only file, so I don't know if it's necessary to edit that as well?

- edit /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h, increased MAXLOGNAME to 33 - rebuild and reinstall world - tried to su to an existing user with a long username that was created under 8.2 before upgrade to 9

Apparently editing the param.h is no longer effective either? By any chance you wouldn't actually know how to enable long username support in 9.0 Release by any chance sir?

Has anybody managed to clone an existing system to an Amazon EC2 instance... perhaps via filesystem dump/restore?

Good to know, sir! Thank you!

Thanks ed@, good to know? Should I still modifiy the param.h or is that deprecated as well?

Anybody? Is it safe to just edit param.h by itself?

Previous to FreeBSD 9, we have always been able to modify /usr/src/sys/sys/param.h MAXLOGNAME = 32 /usr/src/include/utmp.h UT_NAMESIZE = 33 Recompile and install and good to go, however utmp.h has been deprecated in 9 for utmpx.h which offers no similar variable to edit? Is it safe to simply...