18 Feb
2012
18 Feb
'12
9:23 a.m.
On Saturday 2012-02-18 10:02, Milan Knížek wrote:
The 16 character limit in Arch is just like the 80 character "limit" in coding. But actually, it is not a limit, but a wellness target: it may be exceeded if there is a justification. In contrast, historic UNIX usernames of 8 chars - /that/ was a limit.
This seems to be a compilation-time configure option GROUP_NAME_MAX_LENGTH...
POSIX does say something about users in section
- 3.425 User ID
- 3.426 User Name
- 3.276 Portable Filename Character Set http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_...
Everything else should therefore be self-inflicted distro limits. :)