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Subject: misc/13152: systemwide username too short (currently 16 char, should be 64 or so)
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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:


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