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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:41:09 +0200
From: Juergen Unger <j.unger@jpru.de>
To: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net>
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Subject: Re: username and groupname question
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Hi !

On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:09:52PM -0400, Vulpes Velox wrote:
> Just looking at implementing some ACL stuff and just got wondering,
> what is the max length of those?

/usr/include/sys/user.h says 17 for LOGNAME but I think this
includes the extra char for '\0' for security reasons.
16 should be correct for username and groupname I think.
At least is this the maximum user- and groupname lenght
which is displayed by various tools.

bye,
  Juergen