Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:37:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: kline@tera.com, branson@widomaker.com, 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: <199610071937.MAA06009@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <199610071922.OAA13826@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "Oct 7, 96 02:22:55 pm"
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According to Joe Greco: > > 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'?? > > because that is not a login, but rather a mailbox address? > Mmmf; yeah, and it's a mail alias like Mike Murphy says. --I've relied on aliases for smail3 stuff months, years back. Still, same question to the Core gurus: why can't the default be reset to 64 bytes MAX for login? --gdk >
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