On Wed, Jul 13, 2022 at 04:50:20PM -0400, Matt Barry wrote: > On Wed, 2022-07-13 at 22:44 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 12:32:16PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > the useradd documentation says that a user name has a 32 character > > > limit. We should enforce this as well. > > > > Matt, would you want to take a quick plunge at this as well? You're > > still deeply acquained with the entire name checking stuff anyway. > > Sure. There actually is a test for this, and it passes (ie. fails in > every instance, for a 33 character name) - I think because useradd > fails? We might as well check it though, I'll take a look.
If we are ok with erroring out with a useradd error message, and the output is not offensively ugly, I'm fine with that, and we can just close this bug as fixed in 3.122. I am not emotional about this. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
