On Thu, 1 Aug 1996 03:25:27 +0200 
 Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@smaug.mit.edu> wrote:

I've actually done all of this, is it something that should be in the tree?

My code gives usernames up to 36 chars long.

Neil

> 
> >Number:         2668
> >Category:       misc
> >Synopsis:       login-names >8 chars make no fun
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       non-critical
> >Priority:       medium
> >Responsible:    misc-bug-people (Misc Bug People)
> >State:          open
> >Class:          change-request
> >Submitter-Id:   net
> >Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug  1 13:20:09 1996
> >Last-Modified:
> >Originator:     Hubert Feyrer
> >Organization:
> 	FH Regensburg, Germany
> >Release:        vanilla 1.1 release
> >Environment:
> 	
> System: NetBSD smaug 1.1 NetBSD 1.1 (SMAUG) #4: Tue May 14 20:58:29 MET DST 1
996 feyrer@smaug:/tmp_mnt/grizu/usr3/usr_src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/SMAUG sparc
> 
> 
> >Description:
> 	Login'names that are longer than 8 chars seem not to be supported
>  	by NetBSD (V1.1). Problems are:
> 	- chown(8) won't work
> 	- ls(1) only chows first 8 chars
> 	- su(1) won't work
> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
> 	- vipw and make a login with >8 chars, e.g. 'longlogin'
> 	- smaug# cd /tmp
>           smaug# touch x
>           smaug# chown longlogin x
>           chown: longlogin: illegal user name
> 	- vipw and change longlogin to something shorter ('short')
> 	  chown short x
> 	  vipw and change back to 'longlogin'
> 	  smaug# ls -la x
>           -rw-r--r--  1 longlogi  wheel  0 Aug  1 03:12 x
> 	- smaug# su - longlogin
> 	  su: unknown login longlogin
> 
> >Fix:
> 	sure, with much time. :-( (i.e.: none available from me :()
> >Audit-Trail:
> >Unformatted:
> 





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