On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 08:16:06PM +0300, Ilya Andreiv wrote: > 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. There's also this Owl/doc/TODO item: shadow-utils. [PRIORITY: medium] Optionally allow user and group names longer than 8 characters, even though these may not be fully supported by the rest of Owl and by third-party software. This should be two settings in /etc/login.defs, with proper documentation in comments in that file and in the man page (including the cross reference for which commands are affected). There should still a be check for usernames exceeding sizeof(ut.ut_user) and some sane "hard" limits for both user and group names (or the shadow suite programs themselves would misbehave). -- /sd
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Sun Jan 15 2006 - 13:43:18 PST