Maximum length of userid on Fedora Linux

Miloslav Trmač mitr at volny.cz
Sat Mar 27 21:02:16 UTC 2010


Jochen Schmitt píše v So 27. 03. 2010 v 18:12 +0100: 
> I want to ask which is the maximum length of a userid on Fedora Linux.
(UT_NAMESIZE - 1).  UT_NAMESIZE is defined in <utmp.h>

> I think the maximum length of a userid should be 16 but I want to get
> a confiration about this assumetion.
What's special about "16"?  Why not 8, 15, 17, 24, 32?
Mirek



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