On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 06:45 -0500, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 05:47:36AM -0500, Esquivel, Vicente wrote: > > Anyone have any idea of there is such a limit? > > There is a limit but it's changed from release to release. I believe > that a username can only be 12 or 16 characters. The easiest thing to > do is to test it with useradd. Start with a 12-character string and > work your way up. You'll find the limit pretty quickly. > We have domain name based usernames (using ldap backend) that can be up to 50 characters long on RHEL 3. So far only vsftpd has had a problem with these lengths, but that was subsequently patched. -- Karl Latiss <karl.latiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Atvert Systems -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
