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

Ed Schouten ed at 80386.nl
Tue Jul 26 19:20:13 UTC 2011


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

From: Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
To: Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, cdillon at wolves.k12.mo.us
Subject: Re: kern/133926: [request] MAXLOGNAME, the username length limit, is
 too small
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:16:51 +0200

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 Hi Chris,
 
 * Chris Rees <utisoft at gmail.com>, 20110726 16:56:
 > Ed, does utmpx perhaps solve this problem?
 
 For the user accounting database part it does, since ut_user has size
 32, but there may be other parts of the system which may depend on
 MAXLOGNAME.
 
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  Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
  WWW: http://80386.nl/
 
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