Suggestion: increate username buffer size in login.c

Dmitry Golubovsky golubovsky at gmail.com
Wed Aug 15 00:58:07 UTC 2012


Hi,

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Laurent Bercot
<ska-dietlibc at skarnet.org> wrote:
>> Thanks for your response. What I am doing has little to do with the
>> "traditional mechanism" described in the Unix spec.
>
>  Which is why you simply can't rely on using an out-of-the-box Unix
> "login" program. You need a specific utility - extremely close to a
> standard "login", but not quite a standard "login".

Well, all the login program does is basically calls PAM in proper
sequence; it is just a wrapper.

Tito of course has a valid point of adherence to the specs.

>> PAM can do this all very well. I thought I could just reuse the
>> existing login program, just with longer username buffer.
>
>  You can. Just patch busybox the way you suggested and use the patched
> version in your software. :)

That's what I am going to do ;)

Thanks.

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