From 4d19e0af572486ff0cd38b365dfc7411a8207837 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Rayhawk Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:28:25 -0700 Subject: Adding new <32 character limit to usernames --- docs/issues/repo_name_limit.mdwn | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'docs/issues/repo_name_limit.mdwn') diff --git a/docs/issues/repo_name_limit.mdwn b/docs/issues/repo_name_limit.mdwn index 68a77f5..6059178 100644 --- a/docs/issues/repo_name_limit.mdwn +++ b/docs/issues/repo_name_limit.mdwn @@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ * Opened by: jrayhawk ### Discussion -Problem: Repository names are restricted to 24 characters by the groupname limit in libc6 plus our use of the iki- prefix. +Problem: Repository names are restricted to 28 characters by the groupname limit in libc6 plus our use of the iki- prefix. Possible solution: optional use of truncated md5 (the first character needing to be a letter) hash of reponame as groupnames, restriction of usernames to 31 characters to keep namespaces isolated, check in newrepo for hash collision before actions are taken -- cgit v1.2.3