Matt Keenan wrote:
> Requesting code review for bug : 1082 :
>     http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1246
> 
> Webrev :
>     http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=1246

Erm... this is not a webrev...

> Log-in name should be limited to a maximum length of 8 characters. If
> a installer enters a log-in name of greater than 8 characters the install
> fails. Pretty straight forward validation to check for, only issue is
> the new error string. As string freeze has not been reached yet, I'll
> leave it up to Frank et all to decide the correct content of the string.
> 
> Currently :
>     Log-in name must cannot be greater than 8 characters
> 
> In general though I'd like to see this kind of validation moved into
> the orchestrator, and not contained within the GUI.

Note that the limit should really count in _characters_ and not _bytes_
(to allow things like "Schr?der" as login-name (which usually works in
matching multibyte locales like en_US.UTF-8 except for a few utilities))
; the current upper limit is 32 _bytes_.

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Bye,
Roland

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