Re: groupadd webmaster

From: Ilya Andreiv (ilya@private)
Date: Mon Feb 24 2003 - 09:16:06 PST


Hello Oleg!


OL>         Why webmaster is a not a valid group name ?
OL> Where this controls ?


Max length of user/group name can't be greater then 8.
It's hard-coded in "shadow-4.0.0-owl-check_names.diff".

See "long username (more than 8 chars)" thread in list archives.



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