users-admin: group name limited to 16 characters
Bug #1371854 reported by
Christopher A. Chavez
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu MATE |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gnome-system-tools (Debian) |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In users-admin (a.k.a. Users Settings), under Manage Groups/Group Settings, while the listed groups available may have more than 16 characters, when viewing a group's properties the Group name field in Basic Settings only shows the first 16 characters (e.g. "chrome-
(I understand that the system limit may have been 16 characters historically; man groupadd reports it is currently 32 characters.)
Present in both 14.04 (gnome-system-tools 3.0.0-3ubuntu4) and 14.10 (3.0.0-3ubuntu5).
description: | updated |
Changed in gnome-system-tools (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in ubuntu-mate: | |
status: | New → Won't Fix |
Changed in gnome-system-tools (Debian): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
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(copied from latest Debian bug message)
It appears that this issue is resolved simply by adjusting max_length of the group_settings_name GtkEntry widget. Attached is a patch which increases max_length from 16 to 32 characters. I do not know if this is only appropriate for recent Linux distributions (i.e. if kFreeBSD or other platforms using g-s-t have more conservative limits).