The following reply was made to PR bin/30295; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/30295: getty accepts too few letters after username prompt
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 13:28:29 -0400

 On May 21,  3:11pm, wiz@NetBSD.org (Thomas Klausner) wrote:
 -- Subject: bin/30295: getty accepts too few letters after username prompt
 
 | >Number:         30295
 | >Category:       bin
 | >Synopsis:       getty accepts too few letters after username prompt
 | >Confidential:   no
 | >Severity:       serious
 | >Priority:       medium
 | >Responsible:    bin-bug-people
 | >State:          open
 | >Class:          sw-bug
 | >Submitter-Id:   net
 | >Arrival-Date:   Sat May 21 15:11:00 +0000 2005
 | >Originator:     Thomas Klausner
 | >Release:        NetBSD 3.99.3/i386
 | >Organization:
 | 
 | >Environment:
 | 	
 | 	
 | >Description:
 | When entering a username at the console, getty only accepts the first 16 letters
 | and then automatically switches to the password prompt (no return needed).
 | 
 | It should not do this for at least these reasons:
 | . usernames are allowed to be longer than 16 characters
 | . there was no return
 | . login doesn't do it this way
 
 I will argue otherwise:
 
 . usernames can only go up to LOGIN_MAX, which is 16.
 . this has been the traditional behavior and it is done on purpose.
   It can be changed to silently ignore input, but nobody has complained
   until now. 
 . most other unixes do it this way.
 
 christos