Trouble with HP-UX 8-char login names
Joseph S. D. Yao
jsdy at hadron.UUCP
Tue Feb 4 17:09:33 AEST 1986
Old login/passwd code used to try to put nul-terminated (or not)
login names in 8-character arrays. Needless to say, this overflows
if the logname is >= 8 chars. Although the > part was handled, the
= part was not (including the 8th char in an 8+ char logname). I'm
surprised that this code persists, but can't access s5 code right
now. If you are a source licensee, go in and change all logname
references to correctly reference 8-char lognames terminated by a
9th NUL char; if you are not, then use lognames <= 7 chars.
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Joe Yao hadron!jsdy at seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}
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