Bug 184159

Summary: webalizer username exceeds 8 chars
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dax Kelson <dkelson>
Component: webalizerAssignee: Joe Orton <jorton>
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Description Dax Kelson 2006-03-06 22:28:17 UTC 
Description of problem:

The username "webalizer" is 9 characters in length and violates a long
standing convention of 8 character maximum username lengths.

This has a real world impact in the output of the "ls" and "ps" commands.
Besides the visual glitches and mis-alignments from those commands, they are
often used as input to shell scripts which might mis-execute when their input
changes.

Additionally, old tar and cpio may not deal well with username > 8 chars.
Comment 1 Joe Orton 2006-06-16 14:01:03 UTC 
Well, then I could argue that the ls and ps commands should be fixed then?  I
can't really see that this is a problem worth the hassle of changing the
username for.