Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:24:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: branson@widomaker.com (Branson Matheson) Cc: kajtzu@iug.org, erik@il.ft.HSE.NL, questions@freebsd.org, Jos.Vissers@telebyte.NL, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User name length limit increase Message-ID: <199610071824.LAA05970@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961007120113.10051A-100000@toth.hq.ferg.com> from Branson Matheson at "Oct 7, 96 12:06:13 pm"
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According to Branson Matheson: > On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Kaj J. Niemi wrote: > [[ changing the default from 8 to 2N characters... ]] > It's like saying that I have all these nice new carbeurators for my > cars that will make them work better and faster .. but I don't want > to put it on this one car because it won't fit on the old intake. > Gimme a break.. replace the intake! > > -branson > In the my two-cents-worth department, I agree with this logic. The 8-character-length was from the days when virtually no one saw the need for more than a few computers total in the universe. Times have changed. To the core group and other OS gurus, and whoever else may be interested, I pose this question: couldn't the 8 be changed to, say, 64 without causing any hassles anywhere? How does Sun, for one, get away with logins like `john.q.engineer@eng.sun.com'?? gary kline
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