[Wylug-help] unlimiting 32 character username limit

[James Holden]

John,

It's a limitation of libc-6. You cannot change it without changing lots
of other things too.

James

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 12:52 +0100, John Craven wrote:
> I am running Redhat 7.3 and with to add a user name more than 32 characters long.
> e.g. adduser qwerty.asdfgh.zxcvbn-qwert-asdfgh (this is 33 characters long incl dots)
> 
> Does anybody know if this limit can be increased and if so how to do it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John C
> 
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