Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 19:44:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Longer usernames? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.93.960620194319.2813A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <199606202059.WAA00487@campa.panke.de>
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On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > 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. Thats very strange. Why was 12 choosen for MAXLOGNAME when UT_NAMESIZE is 8? Tom
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