From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Oct 15 07:57:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA13325 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 07:57:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA13320 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 07:57:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id HAA23252 for ; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 07:56:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA01835; Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:43:56 +0300 (EET DST) Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:43:56 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: Christopher Masto , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 8 character login limit?! In-Reply-To: <199610151352.GAA09730@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 15 Oct 1996, Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > Christopher Masto wrote: > > > > Branson Matheson writes: > > > GRRRRR... Here we go again... instead of saying there is too much the > > > will need to be fixed to make this available... lets say, what is > > > broken, chmod in this case, fix it and apply a change to the source > > > tree. This question will CONTINUE to come up as more and more people > > > use our product. We should not alienate those who want this feature > > > just because it will break things.. lets fix the problem. > > > > It will break things every day for the rest of your life. It can't be > > "fixed" unless you think you can track down every Unix program someone > > might want to use that tries to stick a user name in an 8-character > > space. > > GROSS HACK ALERT > > 8-character programs must have login names limited to 8-character. > the login name must be unique in the first 8-characters > add an arg to the end of the system calls > a pointer to a string, the longer login name, if any goes there. > any program that works now will continue to work > any program that has been modifid to use longer login names > can do so. There are only one kind of 8-character programs - the programs written by commercial software houses not releasing their source. In all other cases it can be fixed by #if defined(FreeBSD) && defined (LONG_LOGINNAMES) Sander > > (ughhhhhh.) > > anonymous ;) >