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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 2/6] ident.c: Disambiguate the error messages in setup_ident
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:52:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1oe94yjow.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)


If your user name is too long it is your sysadmin who
hates you not your parents!

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---

 ident.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

935f88376b79fc19df6dff85ba57ed94f06d79f0
diff --git a/ident.c b/ident.c
--- a/ident.c
+++ b/ident.c
@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@ int setup_ident(void)
 	/* Get the name ("gecos") */
 	len = strlen(pw->pw_gecos);
 	if (len >= sizeof(real_name))
-		die("Your parents must have hated you");
+		die("Your parents must have hated you!");
 	memcpy(real_name, pw->pw_gecos, len+1);
 
 	/* Make up a fake email address (name + '@' + hostname [+ '.' + domainname]) */
 	len = strlen(pw->pw_name);
 	if (len > sizeof(real_email)/2)
-		die("Your parents must have hated you");
+		die("Your sysadmin must have hate you!");
 	memcpy(real_email, pw->pw_name, len);
 	real_email[len++] = '@';
 	gethostname(real_email + len, sizeof(real_email) - len);

             reply	other threads:[~2005-07-15  0:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-15  0:52 Eric W. Biederman [this message]
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     [not found]   ` <m1br54x324.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
     [not found]     ` <7v8y083k5o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
2005-07-15  2:10       ` [PATCH] Complain about sysadmins in the present tense Eric W. Biederman

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