Hi, Dave Ahmad ( daat_private ) tell me to post this. On a default installation of RedHat 7.2 sh-utils-2.0.11-5 is installed. On a RH 7.1 sh-utils version is 2.0.13 ... ¿ Why this ? On my RH 7.2 I tried this : [hvc@condor hvc] $ su `perl -e 'print "A" x 100000000'` and my box got practically frozen. I'm on a K6-II 500 , 128 MB and 550 of swap. I have noticed that it only seems to work whe I parse a user string to su near the limit ( free mem. + swap ). Over this range is detected as a too many large string but also just over the available memory... Why su allows so large user names ? How long could be a unix/linux user name ? Why do not su limit the size of username to the unix/linux max. size of a user name ? Thanks. HVC Hugo Vázquez Caramés IT Security Services Winmat Barcelona Spain overclocking_a_la_abuelaat_private _________________________________________________________________ Descargue GRATUITAMENTE MSN Explorer en http://explorer.yupimsn.com/intl.asp
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