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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: Longer usernames?
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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