Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:52:37 -0400 From: Drew Derbyshire <ahd@kew.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "John T. Farmer" <jfarmer@sabre.goldsword.com>, tom@uniserve.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, jfarmer@goldsword.com, Studded@dal.net Subject: Re: >8 char usernames going into 2.2.5? Message-ID: <342704C5.A242A097@kew.com> References: <27009.874760684@time.cdrom.com>
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> Here, enjoy. :-)
Okay, to further my enjoyment, two silly questions ...
> diff -u -r1.15.2.2 param.h
> --- param.h 1996/12/15 09:54:28 1.15.2.2
> +++ param.h 1997/09/20 13:04:06
> @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
> -#define MAXLOGNAME 12 /* max login name length */
> +#define MAXLOGNAME 17 /* max login name length */
Why was this 12 and not 9?
> diff -u -r1.2 utmp.h
> --- utmp.h 1996/10/27 18:13:35 1.2
> +++ utmp.h 1997/09/20 13:03:42
> @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
> #define _PATH_WTMP "/var/log/wtmp"
> #define _PATH_LASTLOG "/var/log/lastlog"
>
> -#define UT_NAMESIZE 8 /* see MAXLOGNAME in <sys/param.h> */
> +#define UT_NAMESIZE 16 /* see MAXLOGNAME in <sys/param.h> */
Ummm, why isn't utmp.h using MAXLOGNAME+1 as a reasonable default?
Morals require not including param.h?
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