Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 22:59:03 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Longer usernames? Message-ID: <199606202059.WAA00487@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960619231432.12022B-100000@misery.sdf.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960619231432.12022B-100000@misery.sdf.com>
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Tom Samplonius writes: > Also, I recently noticed that BSDI 2.1 supports 16 character usernames >too (UT_NAMESIZE is 16). This means that BSDI 2.1 bins that access wtmp, >utmp, etc will not work under FreeBSD. The limit is also MAXLOGNAME (12 chars), see /usr/include/sys/param.h /usr/src/lib/libc/gen/getlogin.c Unfortunately our libc mixed MAXLOGNAME and UT_NAMESIZE. Wolfram
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