From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Dec 28 23:54:40 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id XAA18498 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 23:54:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (sdev.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA18493 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 1996 23:54:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.4/8.6.9) id SAA04035; Sun, 29 Dec 1996 18:54:24 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 29 Dec 1996 18:54:23 +1100 From: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: bradley@dunn.org (Bradley Dunn) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: POP3 RADIUS and long usernames References: <8541.851816042@time.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.54 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from Bradley Dunn on Dec 28, 1996 22:53:50 -0500 Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bradley Dunn writes: > Hey, just thought I would let everyone know that we had no problems upping > the limit to 16. All we did was: > > Make UT_NAMESIZE in 16. > Make MAXLOGNAME in 16. > Add eight more spaces between the "USER" and "TTY" fields at line 228 of > src/usr.bin/w/w.c (Just for cosmetics). > Also, if you use the adduser script, up the check for length. > > Nothing has broken (yet). One additional place I found recently was the username check in libskey, which currently truncates usernames to 8 characters (/usr/src/lib/libskey/skeylogin.c). This is still 8 in -current as of today but the author and maintainer are aware of it, so I expect a patch of some sort will filter through shortly. Regards, David Nugent - Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@freefall.org davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn/