control: reassign -1 util-linux
Thank you for your work, Jesse. But since in Debian `last' is provided
by util-linux, I am reassigning.
Dear util-linux maintainer, please take a look at this bug and evaluate,
whether action is needed.
[2018-10-30 21:44] Jesse Smith <jsm...@resonatingmedia.com>
> I'd like to weigh in on a couple of things here:
>
> 1. POSIX does not appear to require that usernames be a maximum of 8
> characters. The limits.h document linked to above says the login name
> max constant must be at minimum 9 bytes (including the trailing NULL).
> This would suggest that setting the username max length to 8 (plus NULL)
> is the absolute minimum allowed by POSIX, rather than the upper limit we
> could go.
>
> 2. The patch provided seems to work, but it completely borks output -
> both for scripts and terminals 80 characters wide. It's all well and
> good, in my opinion, to support longer usernames, but we shouldn't break
> expected behaviour. Most Debian systems are more likely to have scripts
> that expect 80 character line length from last than long usernames.
>
> 3. With this in mind, I adjusted the patch slightly. Now last uses the
> old behaviour by default, but includes a new flag "-l" which allows for
> displaying longer usernames than 8 characters. This way old scripts and
> behaviour is preserved. If an admin knows they have users with 8+
> character names they can run "last -l" to get the new behaviour.
>
> The modified patch has been applied upstream and will appear in SysV
> init 2.92.
>
> - Jesse
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