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    Usernames longer than 16 characters?

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    • D Offline
      disa
      last edited by

      Hi,
      is it possible to have users with a username longer than 16 characters? on the gui everything looks ok, but when I add the user on the logs I can see

      php: /system_usermanager.php: The command '/usr/sbin/pw userdel ***LOONGNAME*** -r' returned exit code '65', the output was 'pw: name too long `ric******' (max is 16)'

      Is this a freebds limit? If so, maybe the gui shouldn't let us input longer names

      (I couldn't find the log for the user add, but it is not created!)

      thanks

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      • jimpJ Offline
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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        Thanks for catching that. I commited a fix: https://rcs.pfsense.org/projects/pfsense/repos/mainline/commits/94d455da18258787132860d8ee203a3523a7d9b3

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