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

I admit I sometimes wish I could implement a security policy for select
users that mirrors the classic MIT error: Your password must be at least
18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords.

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Subject: [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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        From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ] On Behalf
Of Josh Pepper
        Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:48 AM
        To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: [THIN] 20-character limit in logon name - needed?
        
         
        
        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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