On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:47:09PM +0000, Paul Makepeace wrote: > As it happens I went for up to 64 chars, lowercased, allowing [\w ]; the
We've just been completely screwed by a dev-environment (Uniface as it happens, which is shame because I reckon it's the best of the dbms-backed 4GLs) which set a 64 char limit on usernames. This was OK until we wanted to use the LDAP for id's so students could authenticate with the same password everywhere ... but our dn-s are 65 characters long. Fortunately Compuware have produced a patch. Student info-system goes live shortly with the testing reduced to hours instead of weeks :-( Learn the IPv4 lesson: bugger short-term performance/storage issues, take the biggest sensible size ... and make everything 4x bigger! -- Chris Benson
