> From [email protected] Fri May 21 10:57:07 2010
> Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 10:57:05 -0700
> From: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Username length [PSARC/2010/184 FastTrack timeout
> 5/27/2010]
> To: James Carlson <[email protected]>
> Cc: Nicolas Williams <[email protected]>, [email protected],
> Don Cragun <[email protected]>
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> James Carlson wrote:
> > Just for the sake of sanity, I'd like to see a rule limiting
> > system-supplied names to 8 characters, at least for a while.
>
> In the best Postelian tradition of "Be liberal in what you accept, and
> conservative in what you send." and in the spirit of the many other
> "not this case" answers in this review, how about we just record in the
> case log:
>
> This case modifies Solaris/OpenSolaris to accept usernames longer
> than 8 characters.
Just catching up.
Exactly, this case enables administrators to create usernames up
to sizeof (utmpx.ut_user). It does nothing to require administrators
to create such names. Indeed legacy names (except sommerfeld ;-)
are already likely to be no more than 8 charactrers (bytes).
It makes no change to the existing system defined names.
Gary..
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