Date: 23 Mar 1999 22:31:13 +0100 From: Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Benjamin Gavin <gavinb@supranet.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Username size limit suggestion Message-ID: <87ogljao66.fsf@cabulja.herceg.de> In-Reply-To: Benjamin Gavin's message of Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:46:23 -0600 References: <4.1.19990323143242.00b423a0@mail.supranet.net>
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Benjamin Gavin <gavinb@supranet.net> writes:
>
> Hi all,
> I believe that we can all agree that there is never going to be an agreed
> upon limit on the username size. I have just finished rebuilding my system
> to support 32-character usernames (I think, have to finish testing it). I
> have a suggestion and also a couple of questions. First the suggestion:
>
> Suggestion:
> I noticed that the adduser script has the 16 character limit hard-coded
> into the file. I was thinking that it might be a good idea to make that a
> configurable global variable or something of that sort (i.e. $UT_NAMESIZE,
> ala. sys/params.h, at the top of the file.)
This can be done automatically in perl. Something like
require "sys/param.ph";
print "max logname length is " . &MAXLOGNAME . "\n";
should do the trick.
Regards,
Slaven
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