[THIN] Re: 20-character limit in logon name - needed?

Maybe this stems from a deep rooted hatred for his users?


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On 10/31/06, Peterson David <DPETERSO@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

 I don't set user accounts in our AD, but on Windows 2003, you can't have
a username longer than 20 characters, at least a local user. I believe the
maximum password is 128 characters.

Even if you could have a 64 character username, I don't think I'd want to
set a user anywhere near there. Even 20 is quite long and a lot of my users
would probably make a typo whenever they logged into Citrix from outside (we
don't allow credential passing to Citrix.)

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Hi all-

We are running an 8-server (Win2003) Citrix farm with all users managed in
AD.  All our clients are Windows XP variants.

Currently, we are limiting the username to 20 characters.  Is this really
necessary?  It seems the _real_ limit is 104, with 64 being the recommended
for Windows, but is there something different with Citrix?  I know that used
to be a limit, but is it still?

Thanks!

Josh
Software Developer

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