Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 08:14:52 -0700 (PDT) From: pi@LF.net To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: misc/13152: systemwide username too short (currently 16 char, should be 64 or so) Message-ID: <19990815151452.078361531E@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 13152 >Category: misc >Synopsis: systemwide username too short (currently 16 char, should be 64 or so) >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Aug 15 08:20:00 PDT 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Kurt Jaeger >Release: 3.x >Organization: LF.net GmbH >Environment: reeBSD mail.s.netic.de 3.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jun 21 15:57:12 CEST 1999 pi@mail.s.netic.de:/usr/src/sys/compile/MAIL i386 >Description: Deploying a more flexible scheme for automatic user and group administration, the size of the MAXLOGNAME and UT_NAMESIZE value is seen as a limiting factor. >How-To-Repeat: If a system is modified to cope with long usernames, many applications need to be recompiled -- this becomes impractical if a larger number of systems need to be maintained. >Fix: I suggest to change the value for the next major release of fbsd to something like 64 (or larger 8-). >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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