Re: Username length inconsistencies.

[<aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu>(Alex Yukhimets)]

> > Again, the above solution is OK for debhelper (as well as "id -u" one),
> > but assuming that perl is present on the system is still non-portable.
> > Most (if not all) commercial unices got shipped without perl... 
> 
> If you want that kind of portability, you don't want to be checking for
> root anyways.  Nowadays there's this concept of "capabilities" which means
> that uid 0 can be an unpriviledged account.
> 
> The most portable thing is to simply check your results, and issue an error
> report if something seems wrong.

True. I guess this is the best approach.

Thanks.

Alex Y.
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