On Jul 10, 2007, at 7:46 PM, Dan Fandrich wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 07:08:18PM -0400, James Housley wrote:
>> Sorry, I only do very basic perl. What is {6} ???
>
> .{6} matches exactly the 6 characters available for the user or
> group name--
> it's part of the regex in the script. If you post or send me one
> of the
> directory listings that fails the test I can adjust the regex to cope.

But usernames can be much longer, 8 or 16 are common max sizes.

Jim

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