From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 11:25:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA15824 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:25:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hod (hod.tera.com [206.215.142.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA15819; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:25:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [206.215.142.62]) by hod (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA10397; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:24:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA05970; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:24:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610071824.LAA05970@athena.tera.com> Subject: Re: User name length limit increase In-Reply-To: from Branson Matheson at "Oct 7, 96 12:06:13 pm" To: branson@widomaker.com (Branson Matheson) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 11:24:37 -0700 (PDT) Cc: kajtzu@iug.org, erik@il.ft.HSE.NL, questions@freebsd.org, Jos.Vissers@telebyte.NL, isp@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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