kern/133926: [request] MAXLOGNAME, the username length limit, is too small

Ed Schouten ed at 80386.nl
Sat Oct 10 20:10:03 UTC 2009


The following reply was made to PR kern/133926; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, cdillon at wolves.k12.mo.us
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/133926: [request] MAXLOGNAME, the username length limit,
 is too small
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:09:03 +0200

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 So basically this means _all_ utmp structure fields are too small.
 
 - UT_HOSTSIZE is too small to even fit an IPv6 address.
 - UT_LINESIZE is too small to store pts/1000.
 
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  Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
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