pending/1084: 8 charr login name is too long for Version 5, rel 1.2.3 for Solar is 8

[Abramzon, Boris]

>Number:         1084
>Category:       pending
>Synopsis:       8 charr login name is too long for Version 5, rel 1.2.3 for Solar
	is 8
>Confidential:   yes
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gnats-admin
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   unknown
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Apr  3 19:31:01 EST 2002
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It seems to me that this release does not like user names 8 char long giving
the error message:
login name '********' too long

The previous release I was using, 1.1.1, did not have this problem.

It looks like it comes from login.c  from line 1160:

if (strlen (*argv) < UT_NAMESIZE) 

where UT_NAMESIZE is previously defined as 8 from utmp.h .
Should it be <= i nstead of <    ?

Please advise,

Boris Abramzon
Digex, Inc.
(408) 468-5007
boris.abramzon at digex.com