The following reply was made to PR standards/36543; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Greg A. Woods" <woods@planix.com>
To: NetBSD GNATS <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
Cc: <standards-manager@netbsd.org>, <gnats-admin@netbsd.org>,
	<christos@netbsd.org>
Subject: Re: standards/36543 (internal username field lengths should be consistent)
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:11:18 -0400

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 At Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:34:13 +0000 (UTC), christos@netbsd.org wrote:
 Subject: Re: standards/36543 (internal username field lengths should be con=
 sistent)
 >=20
 > Synopsis: internal username field lengths should be consistent
 >=20
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 > State-Changed-By: christos@netbsd.org
 > State-Changed-When: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:34:12 -0400
 > State-Changed-Why:
 > L_cuserid is just obsolete as the man page mentions and it is there=20
 > just for compatibility. I am not sure it is worth changing...
 
 Hmmm... well for compatibility I think it should be consistent with the
 true length used by the system.  Otherwise it should be removed.
 
 > Changing LOGIN_NAME_MAX to 33, changes the username length in the whole
 > system (kernel included). Is that your intention?
 
 Yes, most certainly!  :-)
 
 If wtmpx/utmpx can store that much, then it should all be usable!
 
 --=20
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