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Thread: Is there a username limit for linux/ubuntu?


is there username limit (like 16 or 256 characters) linux/ubuntu? if so, limit?

according
code:
getconf login_name_max
maximum length 256. however, believe libc-6 has upper limit of 32

man useradd:
usernames may 32 characters long.
32 then.


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