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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-07-09 19:20:58 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2014-07-09 19:22:13 +0200
commit932ad62b84165b0acf690ea34c4b8083657ae244 (patch)
tree4c8c3c2806d9459ce69fd3c69ca8716355bd2cfc /man
parente2a69298819b58f008be61d314f8ab95ccaec427 (diff)
sysusers: don't allow user names longer than UT_NAMESIZE
As pointed out by Miloslav Trmač it might be a good idea to make sure that usernames stay with in the utmp-defined limits.
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-rw-r--r--man/sysusers.d.xml2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/sysusers.d.xml b/man/sysusers.d.xml
index 549b3f6351..40f8715bc0 100644
--- a/man/sysusers.d.xml
+++ b/man/sysusers.d.xml
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ m authd input</programlisting>
<title>Name</title>
<para>The name field specifies the user or
- group name. It should be be shorter than 256
+ group name. It should be be shorter than 31
characters and avoid any non-ASCII characters,
and not begin with a numeric character. It is
strongly recommended to pick user and group