> Thanks for your response. What I am doing has little to do with the
> "traditional mechanism" described in the Unix spec.

 Which is why you simply can't rely on using an out-of-the-box Unix
"login" program. You need a specific utility - extremely close to a
standard "login", but not quite a standard "login".


> PAM can do this all very well. I thought I could just reuse the
> existing login program, just with longer username buffer.

 You can. Just patch busybox the way you suggested and use the patched
version in your software. :)
 The fact that your suggestion won't necessarily make it upstream does
not prevent you from using it for yourself.

-- 
 Laurent
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