[Freeipa-users] Re: Username too long error

[Randall Wood]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Rob Crittenden <rcritten at redhat.com> wrote:
> Randall Wood wrote:
>>
>> I figured out once I started a web browser as root...
>
> Not sure how that helped...

It helped merely because while installing/configuring IPA as root, I
had run "kinit admin" which got the Kerberos ticket for Firefox into
the root account....

>
>> 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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