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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