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cPanel 8 character user name limit - can it be changed?

         

mhulbrock

5:04 pm on Feb 18, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Hello everyone, I have a client from Russia running cPanel on their webserver. They are severely limited by the 8 character limitation because mostly all Russian user names seem to be long, has to do with translation of their language.

the official word from cPanel support "Unfortunately, there is no way to increase the username length and I don't think we have any plans to modify this at this current time."

Has any one modified the cPanel source code to accept more characters. I think I have located where the form is validated and could most likely change that, but would this impact the rest of the system.
What encryption is used? Is this the limiting factor?

Any ideas can help
thanks
-Mark

phranque

3:31 am on Feb 19, 2010 (gmt 0)

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the 8 character limit is probably due to the legacy of username length limits in *nix systems.
so your first task is to determine if your OS distribution has this limitation.

mhulbrock

5:28 pm on Feb 23, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Any one try to modify this limit?