From: Todd C. Miller <millert@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: user(8) group line limit
To: David Leadbeater <dgl@dgl.cx>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:00:19 -0600

On Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:52:37 +1100, David Leadbeater wrote:

> The thought crossed my mind, mainly I did it because it matches the
> pattern in adduser/moduser, they use buf[LINE_MAX] and then actually
> limit to 1023. Although they are dealing with '&' expansion so the code
> is slightly different, but same pattern. I don't know why they are doing
> that though.

OK, that makes sense.

 - todd