Usernames longer than 8 chars

Havoc Pennington hp at pobox.com
Wed Mar 26 17:35:53 PDT 2008


It is already a configure option (configure
--with-dbus-user=whatever), this is something packagers should be
adapting for their OS. Changing the default now would probably break
packages that were not setting it by hand before.

I am inclined to think that any program that barfs on more than 8 char
usernames in 2008 is irredeemably broken, though.

Havoc


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