X-Git-Url: https://git.distorted.org.uk/u/mdw/putty/blobdiff_plain/31fb1866040c36038f24c1e2e79e36bf35993279..055817455466c8eb60392f30bb7c689763962e17:/windows/winmisc.c

diff --git a/windows/winmisc.c b/windows/winmisc.c
index 518eb157..c8b92a60 100644
--- a/windows/winmisc.c
+++ b/windows/winmisc.c
@@ -50,8 +50,14 @@ char *get_username(void)
     char *user;
 
     namelen = 0;
-    if (GetUserName(NULL, &namelen) == FALSE)
-	return NULL;
+    if (GetUserName(NULL, &namelen) == FALSE) {
+	/*
+	 * Apparently this doesn't work at least on Windows XP SP2.
+	 * Thus assume a maximum of 256. It will fail again if it
+	 * doesn't fit.
+	 */
+	namelen = 256;
+    }
 
     user = snewn(namelen, char);
     GetUserName(user, &namelen);