On Saturday 2012-02-18 10:02, Milan Knížek wrote: >> >> 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...
POSIX does say something about users in section - 3.425 User ID - 3.426 User Name - 3.276 Portable Filename Character Set http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_426 Everything else should therefore be self-inflicted distro limits. :) _______________________________________________ X2Go-Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/x2go-dev
