Re: Maximum length of userid on Fedora Linux

2010-03-30 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Kevin Kofler píše v Út 30. 03. 2010 v 20:51 +0200: > Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > Oh. In that case, use LOGIN_NAME_MAX from (256 on my > > system). > > Does that include the terminating '\0' or should the buffer actually be > sized LOGIN_NAME_MAX+1? It doesn't really matter, the practical limit i

Re: Maximum length of userid on Fedora Linux

2010-03-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
Miloslav Trmač wrote: > Oh. In that case, use LOGIN_NAME_MAX from (256 on my > system). Does that include the terminating '\0' or should the buffer actually be sized LOGIN_NAME_MAX+1? Kevin Kofler -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mai

Re: Maximum length of userid on Fedora Linux

2010-03-29 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:12:32PM +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote: > I want to ask which is the maximum length of a userid on Fedora Linux. > > I think the maximum length of a userid should be 16 but I want to get > a confiration about this assumetion. Even old Red Hat Linux supported long account n

Re: Maximum length of userid on Fedora Linux

2010-03-28 Thread drago01
2010/3/28 Miloslav Trmač : > Jochen Schmitt píše v Ne 28. 03. 2010 v 11:38 +0200: >> Am 27.03.2010 22:02, schrieb Miloslav Trmač: >> > What's special about "16"?  Why not 8, 15, 17, 24, 32? >> A user has reported a crash about blender on bugzilla. >> >> The examination of the bug shows, that there

Re: Maximum length of userid on Fedora Linux

2010-03-28 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Jochen Schmitt píše v Ne 28. 03. 2010 v 11:38 +0200: > Am 27.03.2010 22:02, schrieb Miloslav Trmač: > > What's special about "16"? Why not 8, 15, 17, 24, 32? > A user has reported a crash about blender on bugzilla. > > The examination of the bug shows, that there is a assignement where > a useri

Re: Maximum length of userid on Fedora Linux

2010-03-28 Thread Jochen Schmitt
Am 27.03.2010 22:02, schrieb Miloslav Trmač: > What's special about "16"? Why not 8, 15, 17, 24, 32? > Mirek > > A user has reported a crash about blender on bugzilla. The examination of the bug shows, that there is a assignement where a userid was copied into a array which is decleared as cha

Re: Maximum length of userid on Fedora Linux

2010-03-27 Thread Miloslav Trmač
Jochen Schmitt píše v So 27. 03. 2010 v 18:12 +0100: > I want to ask which is the maximum length of a userid on Fedora Linux. (UT_NAMESIZE - 1). UT_NAMESIZE is defined in > I think the maximum length of a userid should be 16 but I want to get > a confiration about this assumetion. What's specia

Re: Maximum length of userid on Fedora Linux

2010-03-27 Thread Conrad Meyer
On Saturday 27 March 2010 10:12:32 am Jochen Schmitt wrote: > Hallo, > > I want to ask which is the maximum length of a userid on Fedora Linux. > > I think the maximum length of a userid should be 16 but I want to get > a confiration about this assumetion. $ sudo useradd a2345678901234567890123

Maximum length of userid on Fedora Linux

2010-03-27 Thread Jochen Schmitt
Hallo, I want to ask which is the maximum length of a userid on Fedora Linux. I think the maximum length of a userid should be 16 but I want to get a confiration about this assumetion. Best Regards: Jochen Schmitt -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.