From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 15 07:15:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA11213 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 07:15:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from toth.hq.ferg.com (pm1-02.wmbg.widomaker.com [206.161.154.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA11208 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 07:15:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from toth.hq.ferg.com (localhost.hq.ferg.com [127.0.0.1]) by toth.hq.ferg.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA05937; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:14:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:14:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson X-Sender: branson@toth.hq.ferg.com To: Christopher Masto cc: Chat Subject: Re: 8 character login limit?! In-Reply-To: <199610151303.JAA25774@nimbus.superior.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Christopher Masto wrote: > Branson Matheson writes: > > use our product. We should not alienate those who want this feature > > just because it will break things.. lets fix the problem. > It will break things every day for the rest of your life. It can't be > "fixed" unless you think you can track down every Unix program someone > might want to use that tries to stick a user name in an 8-character > space. Amazing... BSDI was able to do it... and they work from some of the same source as we do... If they can do it ... so can we. ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?