Maximum username length

[Stefan Paetow]

Username as in the RADIUS User-Name attribute?

If so, it's a standard attribute, so a length of 253 octets (250 would probably be safer).

Stefan Paetow
Moonshot Industry & Research Liaison Coordinator
t: +44 (0)1235 822 125

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On 30 Sep 2014, at 10:21, Franks Andy (RLZ) IT Systems Engineer <Andy.Franks at sath.nhs.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
>   We have a project trying to integrate pfsense and freeradus together to form a captive portal, not rocket science.
> 
>   We’re going to attempt to pass a number of delimited variables through via the username field and split them at the freeradius end, mostly to avoid rewriting the php in the captive portal to use more orthodox existing attributes.
> 
> Can someone confirm the maximum username field length? I can see in the RFCs that 63 is the recommended minimum nas length but there’s not much else I can see in there.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andy
> 
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