Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 16:00:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>, jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.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: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961007155054.11272F-100000@toth.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: <199610071947.OAA13921@brasil.moneng.mei.com>
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On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Joe Greco wrote: > 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. Agreed :-) 64 characters is a bit excessive.. but 32 would not be.. for the same reason as that mail alias.... this compnay has 5000+ associates and I have many occurances of people with the same name so anything I can do to make it idiot proof is a good thing... for instance my name has 16 characters in it.. branson.matheson@ferg.com would be nice and easy to remember. On the other hand.. I would not want to type that all the time to login.. so there is a trade off... for my users here... I may force them to use the long name.. but my power users I would probably let them have the shorter name. -branson ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?
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