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MichaelGG
on Nov 19, 2014
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McGill will double your password if you don’t do i...
Well, you have to have some limit. Otherwise a user could register with a 1GB username. This might break all sorts of things that assume they can display or work with usernames.
mike-cardwell
on Nov 19, 2014
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This is why you prevent them from entering one that is longer than your limit. You don't let them enter it and then truncate it...
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