why must gnupg user-id "real names" be at least 5 characters long?

Todd Todd <Freedom_Lover@pobox.com>
Mon Feb 10 02:50:02 2003


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tav wrote:
> can i just comment out:
>
>     else if( strlen(aname) < 5 )
>         tty_printf(_("Name must be at least 5 characters long\n"));

You can do that, I think that's what I did some time back, but then I read
the man page and found the allow-freeform-uid option (silly gpg developers,
hiding the programs options in an obscure man page :).

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