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Enterprise Architect => Suggestions and Requests => Topic started by: Jacek Pliszka on October 07, 2013, 09:37:05 pm

Title: Increase login/username length to 64 characters
Post by: Jacek Pliszka on October 07, 2013, 09:37:05 pm
Could you increase login/username length from 32  to 64 characters?

We would like to have e-mail as logins and several of our users have 40+ characters e-mails

Title: Re: Increase login/username length to 64 character
Post by: skiwi on October 11, 2013, 12:35:35 pm
and this is related to the forum, EA's website, Sparx EA, or ...
Title: Re: Increase login/username length to 64 character
Post by: Jacek Pliszka on October 11, 2013, 07:52:01 pm
Sorry, I meant Sparx EA - currently the logins are 32 characters.

Title: Re: Increase login/username length to 64 character
Post by: qwerty on October 14, 2013, 07:56:13 am
I guessed that ::)

Sparx is quite reluctant with such changes. So chances are low.... Anyway, if I were a user that had to log on with a 40+ mail address I'd start cursing each time I had to use the system. Why don't you use the integrated Windoze authorization?

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Title: Re: Increase login/username length to 64 character
Post by: Jacek Pliszka on October 14, 2013, 07:39:42 pm
> Anyway, if I were a user that had to log on with a 40+ mail address I'd start cursing each
> time I had to use the system.

Why ?

EA remembers user login - you just click OK - no need to enter it every time.

> Why don't you use the integrated Windoze authorization?

Users are from 3 different companies - all they got in common is PostgreSQL EA database.

We do have shared Linux OpenLDAP (used for sftp, svn, web etc.) - login is by e-mail
and the easiest for us would be just connect EA to it.
 

Title: Re: Increase login/username length to 64 character
Post by: qwerty on October 14, 2013, 09:36:53 pm
You might try the following: change the t_secuser.userlogin to take 64 chars. I have no idea if EA will do any internal truncation. But it's worth a try. Just create a user with more than 32 chars and see whether you can log on and whether you can modify that user.

Don't try that with your production server. Use a test schema!

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Title: Re: Increase login/username length to 64 character
Post by: Jacek Pliszka on October 14, 2013, 10:03:39 pm
We've already done it some time ago - the change is now on our production server.

But it would be much safer for us if it were officially 64.
Title: Re: Increase login/username length to 64 character
Post by: qwerty on October 14, 2013, 10:27:14 pm
You should send the request officially to Sparx (use the link bottom right of this page). Probably if it more or less works without much effort they might consider to make it an official change. Cross fingers...

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