Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 14:47:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, 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: <199610071947.OAA13921@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199610071937.MAA06009@athena.tera.com> from "Gary Kline" at Oct 7, 96 12:37:51 pm
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> > 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?
Maybe because it would be a real pain to have to remember
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
my.very.long.and.annoying.log.in.name.which.formats.poorly.in.w@freebsd.org
% w
2:44PM up 62 days, 8:32, 1 user, load averages: 0.25, 0.14, 0.09
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT
my.very.long.and.annoying.log.in.name.which.formats.poorly.in.w p1 freefall 08Aug96 3:32 w
%
Aside from the traditional "size" argument, I don't see anything that would
prevent a site from doing this. ON THE OTHER HAND, I see no particularly
good reason to implement it as default .. particularly with 64 characters.
... JG
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