Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 01:51:18 GMT From: James Raynard <fhackers@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Cc: tom@sdf.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Longer usernames? Message-ID: <199606210151.BAA06421@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199606202059.WAA00487@campa.panke.de> (message from Wolfram Schneider on Thu, 20 Jun 1996 22:59:03 %2B0200)
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> > 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. I think you'll find libc only uses UT_NAMESIZE when it has to interact with NIS. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
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