Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 22:45:31 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Randy Katz <randyk@ccsales.ccsales.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Login Name Length Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960123224428.3364A-100000@ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199601231936.MAA18131@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Tue, 23 Jan 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > What limits the length of user logins to 8 characters and how might this > > be changed? We need 15 or more. > > Modify the header file and rebuild the world. > > Note hat you will break interoperability with standard wire protocols, > like YP, if you change the length of the name field. If you can live > with that, and you have enough room to rebuild the world, go for it. > Just curious, but if the machine I did this on were only a ypclient, I would assume that there wouldn't be any problems, as the server would still only send an 8char userid. Is this a correct assumption, and if not, why not? Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc
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