Screen doesn't accept login names longer than 20 chars

Bug #582153 reported by Vide
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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://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/likewise-open/+bug/534629 ) to DOMAIN\loginname as login name. So it's quite likely that your login name exceeds the 20 chars limit

There is already a bug upstream

http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?21653

but no answer til now (it's from 2007). There is already a very simple patch which solves the problem

http://<email address hidden>/msg00186.html

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
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
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

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Vide (vide80) wrote :
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Jorrit Kronjee (jorrit-wafel) wrote :

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.

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Axel Beckert (xtaran) wrote :
Changed in screen (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Axel Beckert (xtaran) wrote :

Ah, fsck, my fault, I should have read the whole title not just "20 characters". Those bug reports are about the 20 character limit for $TERM, not login names. Meh.

Changed in screen (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → New
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Axel Beckert (xtaran) wrote :

Ok, fixed, sorry for the noise.

Changed in screen (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Axel Beckert (xtaran)
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
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