On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 06:12:32PM +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote: > I want to ask which is the maximum length of a userid on Fedora Linux. > > I think the maximum length of a userid should be 16 but I want to get > a confiration about this assumetion. Even old Red Hat Linux supported long account names (I assume you mean the 'account' field, not the 'UID'). I tested RHL 6? 7? back in 2000 and it handled account names up to around 255 characters. This was for a project called OfficeMaster, a kind of web-based office suite. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. The real issue, as I recall, was support for these long names in various userspace utilities that might store or transmit account names. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
