At 14:35 +0100 3/10/03, Chand wrote:
>hey dudes, i'd really need some insight on this. Does anyone have
>any idea about this ?
>
>TIA
>
>heya,
>
>I have a quick and painless (i hope :) )question..
>
>Do you know how the username length is limited under MySQL. There is
>no mention of this in the manual or books. I figured the username
>length was dynamically limited by the length of the User field in
>the mysql.user table.
The length is described in the manual in this section:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Privileges.html
It indicates that usernames are stored in a 16-character column.
You can also issue a DESCRIBE mysql.user statement to find out.
>
>But i have users with Username longer than 32 characters and those
>get an Access denied error. And, say the username is
>"supercalifragilistixexpicalidocious" (36 characters) it tells that
>user "supercalifragilistixexpicalidoci@.." can't login. I have then
>changed the user field length in the mysql.user table to 128. But
>still, can't login.
>
>I've looked into the code. First thing, the username is cropped at
>32 characters in the error message itself. Indeed, in errmsg.txt,
>the access denied error format string is :
>
>"Access denied for user: '%-.32s@%-.64s' to database '%-.64s'"
>
>I haven't tried recompiling with a longer username string
>conversion, but if you guys tell me MySQL is not cropping the
>username before matching it against the privilege table, i will to
>be sure. I have looked at the user authentication code and haven't
>found anything that would seem to crop at 32 characters even though
>i have found a constant name USERNAME_LENGTH fixed at 16
>characters..which would have been coherent if it was fixed at 32 ..
>so i don'treally know what to believe.
>
>Can anyone tell me exactly what happens ? Is mysql really hard
>limiting the username to 32 characters ? I don't think i have a
>hostname issue since from a same machine, another login with the
>exact same user privilege except the username length works..
>
>If mysql crops the username, is there a patch against it ? If
>someone can point me where in the code this is handled i could do
>the patch myself, just need a hint as to where to find the stuff :)
>I have merely overlooked the code to find obvious proff mysql was
>doing this but didn't.
>
>any insight would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thank guys
>
>
>--
>Chand
