Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 01:51:53 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@cris.net> To: Kurt Jaeger <pi@complx.LF.net> Cc: pi@LF.net, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/13152: systemwide username too short (currently 16 char, should be 64 or so) Message-ID: <19991223015153.C19952@scorpion.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <m120qDv-000zyRC@complx.LF.net> References: <199912201708.JAA34641@freefall.freebsd.org> <m120qDv-000zyRC@complx.LF.net>
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hi, On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 07:10:55PM +0100, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > Synopsis: systemwide username too short (currently 16 char, should be 64 or so) > > > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > > State-Changed-By: phantom > > State-Changed-When: Mon Dec 20 09:04:53 PST 1999 > > State-Changed-Why: > > You did not provide any real example. My experience shown that 16 chars is *really* > > enough. Anyway aliases(5) is your friend. > > My goal is it to set up a system that allows user-allocated (!) usernames > for many different domains on one physical system. > > For this to work, I set up a scheme that allows something like > > user+domain > > as username. Are you sure that it's impossible to do with NIS ? > With the 16 chars limit, this failes very soon for domains longer than > a few characters. > > This was the reason I asked for 64 chars. Hmm... Don't you think that it should be *great* overhead in standalone installation (proc, [uw]tmp, etc. etc. etc.) ? > Aliases are nice for single/few-domain setups, not for systems with > >>1000 domains on one system. Reason: collissions when selecting > the "local" part of an account. > > I still think this should be part of Fbsd. It's part of FreeBSD. It's possible to define user name length as long as you need, but it's not need for everyone. -- /* Alexey Zelkin && phantom@cris.net */ /* Tavric National University && phantom@crimea.edu */ /* http://www.ccssu.crimea.ua/~phantom && phantom@FreeBSD.org */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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