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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">syslog-ng-1.6.8 compiled with GCC 3.4.2 on Solaris 2.8</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">syslog-ng won't write to userttys for login names that are greater than 7 characters</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Equivalent functionality on syslogd works</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Never used getutent until today, but ...</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">After using getutent a little, I've come to the conclusion that the utmp fields are not null-terminated.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Coincidently, ut_name has a size of 8</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">ut_user has a size of 32</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The code near source file "afuser.c", line 98, seems to treat the ut_name and ut_user fields as if they were null-terminated.</FONT></P>
<P><B><FONT SIZE=4 FACE="Impact">Jay Patterson</FONT></B>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">OpenView Consultant</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">E-Mail:</FONT></B><I> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Verdana">Jay.Patterson@T-Mobile.com</FONT></I>
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