Hello.
At Sat, 26 Oct 2019 08:55:03 +0200, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote in
> IDENT_USERNAME_MAX is the maximum length of the information returned
> by an ident server, per RFC 1413. Using it as the buffer size in peer
> authentication is inappropriate. It was done here because of the
> historical relationship between peer and ident authentication. But
> since it's also completely useless code-wise, remove it.
In think one of the reasons for the coding is the fact that *pw is
described to be placed in the static area, which can be overwritten by
succeeding calls to getpw*() functions. I think we can believe
check_usermap() never calls them but I suppose that some comments
needed..
regards.
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Kyotaro Horiguchi
NTT Open Source Software Center
