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!
- 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?
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...
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