package: lwat
severity: wishlist
x-debbugs-cc: debian-edu@lists.debian.org
On Mittwoch, 31. März 2010, Sebastian Feltel wrote:
> Martin Schulte schrieb am 31.03.2010 18:03:
> > trying to add some users using LWAT I saw, the maximum length of a
> > username is set to 8 characters. So, i don't think this is a homage to
> > DOS, but is there a reason for this? Or is it possible to change it. I
> > look around the /etc/lwat/config.php but nothing to find.
>
> you can "configure" the maximum allowed length of an username by
> patching /usr/share/lwat/web/functions.php. Have a look at the changes
> made by me to allow 16 chars long usernames. I have not detected any
> negative side effects since I made this change nearly a year ago.
>
> feltel@tjener:/usr/share/lwat/web$ diff -u functions.php functions.php~
> --- functions.php 2010-03-09 07:20:10.000000000 +0100
> +++ functions.php~ 2010-03-09 07:20:10.000000000 +0100
> @@ -242,7 +242,7 @@
> $minPwUpper = 1 ;
> $minPwLower = 1 ;
> $minPwNumber = 1 ;
> - $uname_maxlen = 16 ;
> + $uname_maxlen = 8 ;
> $allowPwSet = false ;
> $smarty_templ = realpath ("../templates") ;
> $smarty_compile = "/var/spool/lwat" ;
This works, but will be overwritten on the next update of the package. Please
make this (and maybe others) configurable via /etc.
Thanks.
cheers,
Holger
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