Opened 13 months ago
#1486 new defect
Increase MAXLOGNAME to support longer usernames
| Reported by: | dmuir | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Backend | Version: | 8.0.4-RELEASE |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
When using Active Directory, our domain + separator takes up 10 characters. That means that only the shortest of usernames can log in via ssh.
Can MAXLOGNAME be increased to something bigger (eg 64) so that longer logins can be used?
References:
http://bsdbased.com/2009/11/09/long-usernames-in-freebsd
http://answerpot.com/showthread.php?3219475-kern%2F162976%3A+cron+fails+unnecessarily+via+setlogin%282%29+with+sufficiently+long+usernames
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-June/001205.html
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