From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 21 03:30:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA06613 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 03:30:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk (jraynard.demon.co.uk [158.152.42.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA06582 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 03:29:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fhackers@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.12) id BAA06421; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 01:51:18 GMT Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 01:51:18 GMT Message-Id: <199606210151.BAA06421@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de CC: tom@sdf.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199606202059.WAA00487@campa.panke.de> (message from Wolfram Schneider on Thu, 20 Jun 1996 22:59:03 +0200) Subject: Re: Longer usernames? Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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