Bug 75097

Summary:	8 character username limit
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Leonid Mamtchenkov <leonid>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	mitr
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Description Leonid Mamtchenkov 2002-10-04 14:47:57 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809

Description of problem:
It is impossible to create a username longer than 8 characters long during GUI
installation.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start GUI installation
2.Add user
3.Try to add "alexander"
	

Actual Results:  "alexande"

Expected Results:  "alexander"

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-10-04 16:07:36 UTC

You can create users post-install with the redhat-config-users.

Comment 2 Miloslav Trmac 2002-10-05 04:41:16 UTC

Oh, and why can't anaconda do it then? (Just curious)