Syslog username length
donald.ritchey at exeloncorp.com
donald.ritchey at exeloncorp.com
Thu Oct 23 19:21:30 EDT 2003
In many UNIX versions, the maximum length of a user name is limited to eight
characters. This constant reflects that limit. On many newer versions of
UNIX (Linux comes to mind) this limit is no longer in effect. There may be
an operating system constant that holds the local limit, but I am not sure
that it is consistent across all versions.
Don
Donald L. (Don) Ritchey
E-mail: Donald.Ritchey at exeloncorp.com
-----Original Message-----
From: David Olbersen [mailto:DOlbersen at stbernard.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:09 PM
To: sudo-users at sudo.ws
Subject: Syslog username length
While looking through the source for sudo-1.6.7p5 (from the FreeBSD ports) I
noticed that in logging.c lines 169-182 the maximum length of the username
field being output is 8 characters.
Is this some convention I don't know about, or an arbitrary number? Can I
change this via the configuration script? It doesn't look like it.
If it's not a big deal, I'll change my local copy. I am still curious why
8.8 was chosen though!
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David Olbersen
iGuard Engineer
St. Bernard Software
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San Diego, CA 92127
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