Darren, In the Security Doc: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/security/library/long_usernames/ it states that help auditing the codebase is needed.
I am willing to do this, if I could be given read only access to the filesystem that holds the source tree. (Or a copy). I am not a programmer so I am not up on all the different source management tools. I am however a decent shell scripter and have been admining Solaris long enough to figure my through C code. I could complete the audit very quickly once I figured out what I was looking for, and how you wanted the data presented. (I figure a week tops) Cheers, Brian On 4/26/07, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> wrote: > That link sounds like what I want. But it is missing something. > > When I said: > > The old methods with the old settings would still be supported, to > > maintain binary > > compatibility. (using truncation in the event of a conflict. The first > > entry in /etc/passwd > > that matched the truncated entry would match and return that UID). > > I was referring to still supporting an 8byte L_Cuserid to maintain > backward compatibility. (This way applications would still be > backwards compatible by default) Only if it is recompiled to use the > "sysconf" setting would it allow the use of a longer user/groupid.) > > -brian > > On 4/26/07, Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at sun.com> wrote: > > Brian Gupta wrote: > > > Why not introduce a new syscall(?) to dynamically query the username > > > length, where the setting is set by the admin? (Maybe in /etc/system, > > > maybe somewhere else) That way programs have an option of being compiled > > > in a future safe method. New programming guidelines would recommend that > > > developers change to the new methods. The syscall settings default would > > > be set to 8 bytes by default. > > > > New functions don't help old applications. > > > > A syscall here isn't actually the correct way to do it anyway since for > > the most part the kernel doesn't deal in usernames only uids. > > > > See also: > > > > http://opensolaris.org/os/community/security/library/long_usernames/ > > > > -- > > Darren J Moffat > > >
