Ticket History #1084: 8 charr login name is too long for Version 5, rel 1.2.3 for Solar

From boris.abramzon@digex.com Wed Apr 3 19:30:44 2002
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Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:24:43 -0800
From: "Abramzon, Boris" <boris.abramzon@digex.com>
To: "'krb5-bugs@mit.edu'" <krb5-bugs@mit.edu>
Subject: 8 charr login name is too long for Version 5, rel 1.2.3 for Solar
is 8


State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
State-Changed-By: hartmans
State-Changed-When: Thu Apr 4 16:24:37 2002
State-Changed-Why:
This bug is fixed in 1.2.4 which has been released.

is 8
It seems to me that this release does not like user names 8 char long giving
the error message:
login name '********' too long

The previous release I was using, 1.1.1, did not have this problem.

It looks like it comes from login.c from line 1160:

if (strlen (*argv) < UT_NAMESIZE)

where UT_NAMESIZE is previously defined as 8 from utmp.h .
Should it be <= i nstead of < ?

Please advise,

Boris Abramzon
Digex, Inc.
(408) 468-5007
boris.abramzon@digex.com