[ On Tuesday, May 18, 1999 at 00:24:04 (GMT), Bill Sommerfeld wrote: ]
> Subject: bin/7599: finger doesn't show people with >8 charaacter user names as logged in
>
> >Fix:
> 	I looked at this once, and it was something of a mess to fix.
> 	[filing this so that I don't forget about this]

I think the best fix for both this problem (and PR#7598, which is for
all intents and purposes the same), is to have pwd_mkdb and friends
simply refuse to add accounts for user-names > UT_NAMESIZE in length.

(and of course to make damn sure that everything storing or presenting
user names is aware of and respecting of UT_NAMESIZE! ;-)

Making the entire system treat user names as unique for the first
UT_NAMESIZE characters and allowing (and preserving!) any greater number
of characters would be a noble thing to do, but I don't think it's
pragmatic, nor would it maintain the best compability with NetBSD
closest cousins.

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