From 932ad62b84165b0acf690ea34c4b8083657ae244 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lennart Poettering Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 19:20:58 +0200 Subject: sysusers: don't allow user names longer than UT_NAMESIZE MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit As pointed out by Miloslav Trmač it might be a good idea to make sure that usernames stay with in the utmp-defined limits. --- man/sysusers.d.xml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'man/sysusers.d.xml') 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 Name 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf