Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 17:43:56 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: Christopher Masto <exidor@nimbus.superior.net>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 8 character login limit?! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961015174107.1724A-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199610151352.GAA09730@freefall.freebsd.org>
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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 ;) >
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