Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 15:51:21 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User name length limit increase Message-ID: <199610072051.PAA11250@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <199610071824.LAA05970@athena.tera.com> from "Gary Kline" at Oct 7, 96 11:24:37 am
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In a previous message, Gary Kline said: > > 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'?? That's an alias. They use NIS+ to change that. You can do the same sort of thing with IDE extensions to sendmail -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030
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