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From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: misc/11024: getpwnam(3) uses incorrect #define to limit username length
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The following reply was made to PR misc/11024; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc: Ray Bellis <rpb@community.net.uk>
Subject: Re: misc/11024: getpwnam(3) uses incorrect #define to limit username length
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 12:26:31 -0400

 Message from originator, that relates to this PR.
 
 On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 04:44:33PM +0100, Ray Bellis wrote:
 > > Synopsis: getpwnam(3) uses incorrect #define to limit username length
 > >
 > > State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed
 > > State-Changed-By: mike
 > > State-Changed-When: Fri Jul 20 08:01:09 PDT 2001
 > > State-Changed-Why:
 > >
 > > Originator indicated, in a private e-mail to me, that he isn't able to
 > > test this in a newer version of FreeBSD.  But since the variable that
 > > was causing the problem no longer exists, I feel it's safe to close
 > > this PR.
 > >
 > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=11024
 > 
 > I disagree.
 > 
 > Looking through the CVS web interfaces there are still places in the
 > source where UT_NAMESIZE is used instead of MAXLOGNAME (eg
 > usr.bin/login/login.c).  If they happen to be the same value, it'll
 > still work, but if a sysadmin changes MAXLOGNAME it won't have the
 > desired effect.
 > 
 > regards,
 > 
 > Ray
 > 
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 > 
 > 

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