adduser/passwd: too long username

Laszlo Papp lpapp at kde.org
Thu Aug 21 06:42:36 UTC 2014


On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 7:37 AM, Natanael Copa <ncopa at alpinelinux.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 20:37:00 +0200
> Natanael Copa <ncopa at alpinelinux.org> wrote:
>
>> I never sent those patches upstream because I don't think this is the
>> correct fix. For Alpine Linux the "correct" fix was to use the libc
>> implementation and a libc that handles this properly (musl libc)
>> together with the patch I sent to this mailing list.
>>
>> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2014-April/080809.html
>>
>> Commit message didn't say it but that patch is also needed to fix the
>> username/groupsize issue - with glibc too I believe.
>
> Denys, any chance that the above mentioned patch gets applied?
>
> Should I send a v2 with better commit message?

No, please check out tito's work. That seems to be the right to do.


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