[Buildroot] Suggestion: increase username buffer size in busybox login

Dmitry Golubovsky golubovsky at gmail.com
Fri Aug 17 12:46:32 UTC 2012


Hi,

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> This should not be implemented in Buildroot, as we don't want to keep
> such "feature" patches on our packages. Make a patch to Busybox that
> turns this into a configurable value, so that by default the length of
> 32 characters is used, but a Busybox configuration option allows to
> extend that. Then, Buildroot users interested by this feature can
> create a custom Busybox configuration.

Busybox developers increased this length to 64 for now ;) It is in the
daily snapshot and eventually will propagate to Buildroot (or can even
be enabled now by selecting daily snapshot).

Maybe this will be sufficient.

Thanks.

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Dmitry Golubovsky

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