Bug 184159 - webalizer username exceeds 8 chars
Summary: webalizer username exceeds 8 chars
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: webalizer
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Joe Orton
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-06 22:28 UTC by Dax Kelson
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-06-16 14:01:03 UTC
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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.


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