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).
If there are any files shared by NFSv4 with owner or group set to system
accounts, then I think that issue may become a little more serious. If
I recall correctly, NFSv4 does mapping by name rather than by ID number.
Just for the sake of sanity, I'd like to see a rule limiting
system-supplied names to 8 characters, at least for a while.
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James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]>
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