Logins Longer Than 8 Characters

Support knowledgebase (rsimai_imap_login)
Applies to

SuSE eMail Server: Version II

Situation

You want to create logins longer than 8 characters. However, the limit in the web frontend is set to 8.

Procedure

Edit the line 193 in the file

/usr/local/httpd/htdocs/imap-bin/create_user.pl

Search for

  td({-class=>"g1vC"},["$message{uid} *",
              $q->textfield(-name=>'uid',
                               -size=>20, 
                               -maxlength=>8)]  ),
The value maxlength=>8 sets the limit of the accepted UID length when creating users.

Please note: These modifications are made at your own risk!
Our installation support shall not be liable in case of difficulties caused by these changes!
Some problems may arise in connection with the authentication via Samba and LDAP, since only logins up to 8 characters comply with the UNIX standards.

We recommend you to resign yourself to this limitation and to use aliases for the e-mail addresses.
Keywords: IMAP, EMAILSERVER, LOGIN, UID

Categories: Installation

SDB-rsimai_imap_login, Copyright SuSE Linux AG, Nürnberg, Germany - Version: 25. Jul 2001
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