Bug 184157 - beagleindex username exceeds 8 characters
Summary: beagleindex username exceeds 8 characters
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: beagle
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Alexander Larsson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-06 22:25 UTC by Dax Kelson
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-06-21 11:59:36 UTC
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Description Dax Kelson 2006-03-06 22:25:18 UTC
Description of problem:

The username "beagleindex" is 11 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.

Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2006-06-21 09:35:28 UTC
Hmmm, it seems tricky to change it now though. The current name is already in
peoples /etc/passwd. 

Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2006-06-21 11:59:36 UTC
Fixed in 0.2.7-1.



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