Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 22:16:50 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@campa.panke.de> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Tushar Patel <tushar@ecpi.com>, kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Login name longer then 8 character? Message-ID: <199605192016.WAA02026@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <199605162317.BAA02650@vector.jhs.no_domain> References: <199605152032.UAA13583@ecpi.com> <199605162317.BAA02650@vector.jhs.no_domain>
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Julian H. Stacey writes:
>Perhaps whoever wrote the adduser 8 char limit knew there are or
I was it ;-)
>at least were also passwd 8 char limits in FreeBSD,
> (as to version I can't tell you, but I did hit such a limit a few months
> back, on a machine kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de knows of)
>
>so before you read & change the source to adduser,
>go & do some direct tests with passwd etc.
libc depend on UT_NAMESIZE (8 chars) and MAXLOGNAME (12 chars).
man setlogin
[...]
BUGS
Login names are limited in length by setlogin(). However, lower limits
are placed on login names elsewhere in the system (UT_NAMESIZE in
<utmp.h>).
Wolfram
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