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Subject: Re: User name length limit increase
In-Reply-To: <199610071922.OAA13826@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from Joe Greco at "Oct 7, 96 02:22:55 pm"
To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
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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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