From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 13:51:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA27517 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 13:51:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA27504 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 13:51:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id PAA11250; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 15:51:22 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199610072051.PAA11250@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Re: User name length limit increase To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 15:51:21 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199610071824.LAA05970@athena.tera.com> from "Gary Kline" at Oct 7, 96 11:24:37 am X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In a previous message, Gary Kline said: > > According to Branson Matheson: > > On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Kaj J. Niemi wrote: > > > [[ changing the default from 8 to 2N characters... ]] > > > > It's like saying that I have all these nice new carbeurators for my > > cars that will make them work better and faster .. but I don't want > > to put it on this one car because it won't fit on the old intake. > > Gimme a break.. replace the intake! > > > > -branson > > > > 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'?? That's an alias. They use NIS+ to change that. You can do the same sort of thing with IDE extensions to sendmail -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030