Issue mentioned on questions list

I'm not expecting a reply to this, it was something that come up
discussing building custom kernels.

Just wondering if someone may be interested in looking at the
possibility of changing username length to a sysctl.

As the number of people using computers is increasing, it is now
common for web sites/mail servers to use your full email as your
username, keeping that consistent through all username usage doesn't
seem like an unreasonable request. I would expect a username length
sysctl value would only be allowed to be set in the loader.conf at boot
time, similar to zfs.arc_max


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: Custom kernel for NAT and PF ?
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 13:58:56 +0930
From: Shane Ambler <FreeBSD_at_ShaneWare.Biz>
To: Doug McIntyre <merlyn_at_geeks.org>, FreeBSD Questions 
<freebsd-questions_at_freebsd.org>

On 14/05/2016 04:40, Doug McIntyre wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 02:04:55PM +0930, Shane Ambler wrote:
>>> Now you only need to compile a custom kernel if you want to use newer
>> features.
> ...
>
> Unfortunately, I have two situations where that isn't true.
>
> For the first, I wish that just loading the PPS drivers enabled the
> PPS_SYNC option in the kernel, but it doesn't seem to. (if there is
> a way to enable 'option PPS_SYNC' with a generic kernel I'd like to know,
> but my experients didn't lead me that working. I still have to compile
> the kernel for my GPS connected NTP servers. Which makes me wonder why
> the PPS drivers are a kernel loadable object.

I would report that as a bug and see if it can be improved.

> The second is that the username handling is still limited to 32-bytes,
> which really cramps my logins for 'billyjoebobuser_at_somesillydomainname.com'
> so I have to build a custom kernel with longer usernames patched for
> the systems that need to deal with system logins like that.

While I don't have that issue, it does sound like an old time
limitation that should be considered for rework. Maybe it could be
made into an adjustable sysctl.

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