Maximum length of userid on Fedora Linux

Jochen Schmitt Jochen at herr-schmitt.de
Sun Mar 28 09:38:58 UTC 2010


Am 27.03.2010 22:02, schrieb Miloslav Trmač:
> What's special about "16"?  Why not 8, 15, 17, 24, 32?
> Mirek
>
>   
A user has reported a crash about blender on bugzilla.

The examination of the bug shows, that there is a assignement where
a userid was copied into a array which is decleared as char [16], so
I though to memorize that I have read sometihing about 16 character
as a maximum for a userid on Unix.

Best Regards:

Jochen Schmitt


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