Re: Long usernames

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Chris Wagner wrote:
>At 06:23 PM 10/26/99 +0200, grendel@vip.net.pl wrote:
>>Nobody  forbids you to use long user names on a GNU system. It's just
>>probable that some software on other systems will fail when handed a >8
>>username.
>
>Yeah, I think RADIUS can only handle 8 char usernames.

>From the User-Name section of
/usr/doc/doc-rfc/all-included-rfcs/rfc2138.txt.gz:

   String
 
      The String field is one or more octets.  The NAS may limit the
      maximum length of the User-Name but the ability to handle at least
      63 octets is recommended.



So there should not be any RADIUS problems with >8 characters.  However I
still prefer <8 if only to save typing.

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