On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 8:24 PM, tito <farmat...@tiscali.it> wrote: > On Tuesday 05 August 2014 18:09:08 you wrote: > > To challenge this a bit further for completeness: the other option would > be > > to limit the username length to 32 or 48 bytes rather than allowing the > > whole 128-byte "desktop-range". 256 does look like a bit excessive that > > getconf returns: > > > > getconf LOGIN_NAME_MAX > > 256 > > > > I find it hard to achieve in even scripts and console, let alone user > > interfaces like small touch screen. Although, that is probably an > entirely > > UI design area... > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Laszlo Papp <lp...@kde.org> wrote: > > > > > commit 980965767ef3ace983746ee25e92665b87d16755 > > > Author: Laszlo Papp <lp...@kde.org> > > > Date: Tue Aug 5 11:42:24 2014 +0100 > > > > > > Allow 256 bytes long usernames as per Unix standards (usually) > > > > > > diff --git a/libpwdgrp/pwd_grp.c b/libpwdgrp/pwd_grp.c > > > index 2060d78..9e4424f 100644 > > > --- a/libpwdgrp/pwd_grp.c > > > +++ b/libpwdgrp/pwd_grp.c > > > @@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ > > > > /**********************************************************************/ > > > /* Sizes for statically allocated buffers. */ > > > > > > -#define PWD_BUFFER_SIZE 256 > > > -#define GRP_BUFFER_SIZE 256 > > > +#define PWD_BUFFER_SIZE 2*LOGIN_NAME_MAX+256 > > > +#define GRP_BUFFER_SIZE 2*LOGIN_NAME_MAX+256 > > > > > > > /**********************************************************************/ > > > /* Prototypes for internal functions. */ > > > > > > > Hi, > even if we do it that way still the problem in group files with > groups with multiple members remains unresolved: > > with more than 8 members (or even less) . >
Sure, but that is a slightly different question, although having said that, I am wondering how you would avoid setting a limit for the maximum length somewhere anyway?
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