From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i686) During the installation, the user is prompted to create additional user accounts if he/she wants to. If one tries to create a new user account with a username that contains more than 8 characters, the following error is displayed: "User IDs must be less than 8 characters and contain only characters A-Z, a-z, 0-9" I see two problems with this behavior: 1) In spite of UNIX traditions, it is possible to create usernames that contain more than 8 characters these days. Red Hat Linux allows to create such accounts once the installation is completed, and therefore for consistency sake it should also allow it during the installation process. 2) If we allow the installer to make it impossible to create these accounts, then the error message should be changed since the ID doesn't need to be "less than 8 characters long" but rather 8 or less. The wording would need to be changed then. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try to create an account whose username contains more than 8 characters during the installation.
Brent - check into if we need to change this limit.
We probably should change this so that usernames can be more than 8 chars, but we can't change the labels at this time because of the translations. I'll mark this as RFE and put it on our list for future releases. Marking as deferred.
Fixed in cvs.