Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 18:03:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: scrappy@ki.net (Marc G. Fournier) Cc: terry@lambert.org, randyk@ccsales.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Login Name Length Message-ID: <199601250103.SAA01405@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960123224428.3364A-100000@ki.net> from "Marc G. Fournier" at Jan 23, 96 10:45:31 pm
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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? It's not because the structure size will have changed. You will need to define a seperate structure for wire format and convert it on the way in if you wish to do this type of thing. Probably this would be a good generic thing for YP in any case; I could see wanting to put client code on a non-UNIX box at some time in the future (like Windows95 or WindowsNT), and the structure definition should be local to the YP implementation for that. This would mean a little work and some extra copying on your part; I don't know if anyone has already done this work -- I don't think so, since it would still make the hacked box unusable as a YP master or slave (as opposed to client). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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