[Freeipa-users] Re: Username too long error

[Rob Crittenden]

Randall Wood wrote:
> I figured out once I started a web browser as root...

Not sure how that helped...


> I'm still surprised at the default setting of 8 character user names (I 
> thought we were long past the days of Solaris 8/NIS dictating username 
> settings).

Yes, we start with the lowest-common-denominator because we wanted to 
support clients as far back as Solaris 6.

There is one setting to increase this, though there is still a cap of 32 
(though the UI won't tell you this, a bug is already filed).

rob

> 
> On 16 May 2009, at 13:44, Randall Wood wrote:
> 
>> I need to be able to use firstname.lastname style usernames, and know 
>> that FDS/389 can handle them, but ipa-useradd is throwing username too 
>> long errors. How can I fix this?
>>
> 
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