On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 01:42:30PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > In any case, customers that require strict SysV ABI compliance (e.g.,
> > customers that have apps that use LOGNAME_MAX and/or L_cuserid and who
> > cannot or will not re-build those apps) can always stick to creating
> > usernames with 8 or fewer bytes.
>
> If that is to be a supported scenario, then all system provided account
> names should remain within the 8 character limit. Obviously they already
> have to for any case requesting a patch binding for possible backport to
> an older release, but ARC should decide whether cases that only deliver
> after this change should be able to add system accounts with longer usernames
> ("postgresql" instead of "postgres" for instance).
Not necessarily. We could have pkgs that will only work in a
non-standards-compliant installation. Certainly in /contrib :)
But, yes, I agree. This could be enforced by IPS or checked for by the
recently proposed IPS lint checker. I suspect Darren will claim all of
that is "not this case".
Nico
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