Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 19:10:55 +0100 (CET) From: "Kurt Jaeger" <pi@complx.LF.net> To: phantom@FreeBSD.org Cc: pi@LF.net, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/13152: systemwide username too short (currently 16 char, should be 64 or so) Message-ID: <m120qDv-000zyRC@complx.LF.net> In-Reply-To: <199912201708.JAA34641@freefall.freebsd.org> from "phantom@FreeBSD.org" at Dec 20, 1999 09:08:45 AM
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Hi! > Synopsis: systemwide username too short (currently 16 char, should be 64 or so) > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed > State-Changed-By: phantom > State-Changed-When: Mon Dec 20 09:04:53 PST 1999 > State-Changed-Why: > You did not provide any real example. My experience shown that 16 chars is *really* > enough. Anyway aliases(5) is your friend. My goal is it to set up a system that allows user-allocated (!) usernames for many different domains on one physical system. For this to work, I set up a scheme that allows something like user+domain as username. With the 16 chars limit, this failes very soon for domains longer than a few characters. This was the reason I asked for 64 chars. Aliases are nice for single/few-domain setups, not for systems with >>1000 domains on one system. Reason: collissions when selecting the "local" part of an account. I still think this should be part of Fbsd. -- MfG/Best regards, Kurt Jaeger 21 years to go ! LF.net GmbH pi@LF.net Oberon.net GmbH pi@oberon.net Vor dem Lauch 23 fon +49 711 90074-23 Friedrich-Ebert-Str.1 D-70567 Stuttgart fax +49 711 7289041 40210 Duesseldorf fon +49 211 179253-11 For Redmond: "nuke the site from orbit -- it's the only way to be sure." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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