adduser/passwd: too long username

[Laszlo Papp]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Natanael Copa <n at tanael.org> wrote:
> Den 21. aug. 2014 kl. 08:42 skrev Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org>:
>
>> 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.
>
> we need both.
>
> as i understand, titos patch solves the problem for when you enable busybox's implementation with CONFIG_USE_BB_PWD_GRP. you actually have the same problem with it disabled, even if system implementation can handle it correctly. that is what my patch solves.

That seem to be an irrelevant discussion in this thread, then. Should
have been sent to a separate thread. This thread is about issues when
CONFIG_USE_BB_PWD_GRP is enabled.