Max length for User-Name

[Adam Bishop]

On 27 Jan 2017, at 15:26, Joe Friedeggs <friedeggs44 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> which recommends 'at least' 63 octets, but I see the sql (ver 2.2.6 with postgresql) set the limits the UserName to 'at most' 64 characters:

2.2 is EoL. 3.0.x uses the text type for username:

  CREATE TABLE radcheck (
  	id			serial PRIMARY KEY,
  	UserName		text NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  	Attribute		text NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  	op			VARCHAR(2) NOT NULL DEFAULT '==',
  	Value			text NOT NULL DEFAULT ''
  );

> What is the reasoning behind this?

Someone decided that '64' was a cooler looking number than '30' 12 years ago:
  https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/commit/fa493402ac9e2d8d401b924a6372e73bf3ba8c7a

Regards,

Adam Bishop

  gpg: E75B 1F92 6407 DFDF 9F1C  BF10 C993 2504 6609 D460

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