Screen doesn't accept login names longer than 20 chars
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screen (Debian) |
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screen (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: screen
GNU screen only accept login names with less than 21 characters. This is a problem with Ubuntu 10.04 cause if you're using likewise-open as authenticating method it defaults (and it cannot be changed, see https:/
There is already a bug upstream
http://
but no answer til now (it's from 2007). There is already a very simple patch which solves the problem
http://<email address hidden>
which got unresponded as well. Please, can you apply this patch in Ubuntu's build of screen? Thanks in advance
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: screen 4.0.3-14ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 18 10:25:28 2010
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: screen
Related branches
Changed in screen (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in screen (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
Changed in screen (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in screen (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
That does look a little bit silly. I'm confirming this bug, because I was able to reproduce it.
Patch looks fine, but that will be up to the maintainer to decide. This bug is not yet fixed in the latest git version.