Re: MAX_USERNAME_LEN set too low

2019-03-17 Thread Walter Harms
> Matt Johnston hat am 1. März 2019 um 15:24 geschrieben: > > > Hi Mike, > > The limit's arbitrary so 32 would be fine. Maybe even something like 100. > I'll increase it for the next release. > > Cheers, > Matt > > > On Fri 1/3/2019, at 8:28 am, W. Michael Petullo wrote: > > > >

Re: MAX_USERNAME_LEN set too low

2019-03-01 Thread Matt Johnston
Hi Mike, The limit's arbitrary so 32 would be fine. Maybe even something like 100. I'll increase it for the next release. Cheers, Matt > On Fri 1/3/2019, at 8:28 am, W. Michael Petullo wrote: > > Dropbear's auth.h defines MAX_USERNAME_LEN as 25 and provides the > commentary "arbitrary for the

MAX_USERNAME_LEN set too low

2019-02-28 Thread W. Michael Petullo
Dropbear's auth.h defines MAX_USERNAME_LEN as 25 and provides the commentary "arbitrary for the moment." The useradd utility from shadow-utils on Linux supports usernames with up to 32 characters. This means that some valid users cannot make use of SSH, namely users for which len(username) is