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Subject: [THIN] Re: 20-character limit in logon name - needed?
From: "Peterson David" <DPETERSO () DINSLAW ! com>
Date: 2006-10-31 20:33:17
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I haven't seen anything on Microsoft's site, but in a response to a
newsgroup question on the topic, a MS rep said the limit was 20
characters. Also, if you create a local user account on 2003, it will
stop accepting characters in the username field after the first 20.
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From: thin-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On
Behalf Of Josh Pepper
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:18 PM
To: thin@freelists.org
Subject: [THIN] Re: 20-character limit in logon name - needed?
I could be wrong here, but I believe that the 20 character limit is only
for mailboxes (not Exchange, just W2003 mailboxes), or for NT 4.0 and
earlier.
Can anyone comment on a greater than 20 character policy for logon names
that is current in place and active?
Josh Pepper
Software Developer
MinuteClinic
Tel: 612-767-1946
Email: Josh.Pepper@minuteclinic.com
<mailto:Josh.Pepper@minuteclinic.com>
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Behalf Of Peterson David
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:02 AM
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Subject: [THIN] Re: 20-character limit in logon name - needed?
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@freelists.org [mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] On
Behalf Of Josh Pepper
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:48 AM
To: thin@freelists.org
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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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=225433020-31102006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I haven't seen anything on Microsoft's site, but in a
response to a newsgroup question on the topic, a MS rep said the limit was 20
characters. Also, if you create a local user account on 2003, it will stop
accepting characters in the username field after the first
20.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> thin-bounce@freelists.org
[mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Josh
Pepper<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, October 31, 2006 2:18 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
thin@freelists.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [THIN] Re: 20-character limit in logon
name - needed?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I could be wrong here,
but I believe that the 20 character limit is only for mailboxes (not Exchange,
just W2003 mailboxes), or for NT 4.0 and earlier.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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color=blue size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Can \
anyone comment on a greater than 20 character policy for logon names that is current \
in place and active?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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[mailto:thin-bounce@freelists.org] <B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">On Behalf Of \
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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.)</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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</SPAN></B><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Josh Pepper</st1:PersonName><BR><B><SPAN \
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:48 \
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w:st="on">thin@freelists.org</st1:PersonName><BR><B><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [THIN] 20-character limit in logon
name - needed?</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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all-<BR><BR>We are running an 8-server (Win2003) Citrix farm with all users
managed in AD. All our clients are Windows XP variants.<BR><BR>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?<BR><BR>Thanks!<BR><BR>Josh<BR>Software
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