[Bug 304011] No maximum length for the 'Home directory' within Create/Modify user

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Nils Philippsen <nphilipp at redhat.com> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Nils Philippsen <nphilipp at redhat.com>  2009-06-10 11:03:16 EDT ---
Sorry for taking so long to respond.

(In reply to comment #4)
> A little more information.  I have just added a print command to
> /usr/share/system-config-users/system-config-users.py  the maximum length
> applied is 4096.  I then extract the path from /etc/passed and used "wc -m
> ./mytestfile" to count the character length.  Wc report 4097.  Hope that helps.  

Hm, I guess that the file might contain a new line character which isn't in the
home directory itself. The problem in that case is that the home directory path
isn't too long, only that of the files contained. I'm unsure about where to
draw the line -- maximum path length minus 100 characters? 95% of max path
length? Do you have an idea?

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