Hello. At Sat, 26 Oct 2019 08:55:03 +0200, Peter Eisentraut <peter.eisentr...@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. -- Kyotaro Horiguchi NTT Open Source Software Center
