V Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:00:30 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> napsáno:
> I do not see any group name length limit either, however, > > (a) there is a limit as to what a user can/want to take. While > tabcompletion probably gets you out most of the time, nobody really > wants e.g. /home/Karl\ Theodor\ Maria\ Nikolaus\ Johann\ Jacob\ > Philipp\ Franz\ Joseph\ Sylvester\ Freiherr\ von\ und\ zu\ Guttenberg > (21st century, though past-time, German politician serving for this > example). > > (b) not defined by POSIX, but there is an actual sanity limit. > A username length about PATH_MAX chars long becomes problematic > to be used in a path, e.g. when attempting to use for /home :) > > The 16 character limit in Arch is just like the 80 character "limit" > in coding. But actually, it is not a limit, but a wellness target: it > may be exceeded if there is a justification. In contrast, historic > UNIX usernames of 8 chars - /that/ was a limit. This seems to be a compilation-time configure option GROUP_NAME_MAX_LENGTH... On Debian (I looked at Knoppix actually), the limit is relaxed a bit: 32 chars. It can be handled as a distro specific patch, although it complicates portability. Regards, Milan -- http://www.milan-knizek.net/ About linux and photography (Czech only) O linuxu a fotografování _______________________________________________ X2Go-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev
