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Subject: setlogin needs to be updated.
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>Number:         6377
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       setlogin needs to be updated.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Apr 21 13:20:00 PDT 1998
>Closed-Date:    Tue Apr 21 15:24:19 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:  Tue Apr 21 15:25:10 PDT 1998
>Originator:     Forrest Aldrich
>Release:        2.2.6-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD smtp.navinet.net 2.2.6-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE #0: Tue Apr 21 13:15:43 EDT 1998     forrie@smtp.navinet.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/SMTP  i386
>Description:
setlogin() and utmp need to be updated to permit login names
greater than 8 characters.


>How-To-Repeat:
If you add a login name longer than 8 characters, it's not
recognized by passwd and tools.

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: jkh 
State-Changed-When: Tue Apr 21 15:24:19 PDT 1998 
State-Changed-Why:  
This is not a bug - the maximum login name is very clearly 8 characters 
in 2.2.6 - see UT_NAMESIZE in /usr/include/utmp.h. 
>Unformatted:
