Bug 75097 – 8 character username limit

Bug 75097 - 8 character username limit

Summary:	8 character username limit

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i686 Linux

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Assigned To:	Michael Fulbright
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Reported:	2002-10-04 10:47 EDT by Leonid Mamtchenkov
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:47 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2002-10-04 10:48:03 EDT
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Description Leonid Mamtchenkov 2002-10-04 10:47:57 EDT

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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.

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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 12:07:36 EDT

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

Comment 2 Miloslav Trmac 2002-10-05 00:41:16 EDT

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

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