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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Length of User names
Message-ID: <3614@litchi.bbn.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 14:55:55 GMT
References: <27070@adm.brl.mil> <1991Jun1.194721.25383@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> <16322@smoke.brl.mil>
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In article <1991Jun1.194721.25383@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) writes:
>and was informed that you just need to change a couple of include files
>(<utmp.h> comes to mind) and recompile everything.

In <16322@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> consider
>those applications that attempt to get usernames and provide only 8+1
>characters of storage for them
Such programs are fairly badly written since the header file has
warned about using "8" for some time and you can safely get the maximum
allowable size by using sizeof.
	/r$
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