Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 14:22:55 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Cc: 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: <199610071922.OAA13826@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199610071824.LAA05970@athena.tera.com> from "Gary Kline" at Oct 7, 96 11:24:37 am
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> 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? ... JG
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