Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 14:59:27 -0700 From: Richard Stanford <richards@herald.net> To: FreeBSD ISP list <isp@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: User name length limit increase Message-ID: <32597D3F.383B@herald.net> References: <199610071824.LAA05970@athena.tera.com>
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Gary Kline wrote: > anywhere? How does Sun, for one, get away with logins > like `john.q.engineer@eng.sun.com'?? Well, that's an email address, not a login -- which is probably an alias to something unpronouncable like enginejq on the eng machine. It's a fair question, though. My system skills aren't good enough that I feel comfortable changing the length and diving into whichever critical piece of software no longer works, but I'd love to be able to offer longer usernames... -Richard
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