Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 07:31:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com> To: Jos.Vissers@telebyte.nl Cc: michael@memra.com, questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: User name length limit increase Message-ID: <199610081131.HAA07442@tbd.gfoster.com> In-Reply-To: <199610080912.LAA32726@monet.telebyte.nl> (message from Jos Vissers on Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:12:10 %2B0200 (MET DST))
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Well, the obvious thing that jumps out here is to extend aliasing capabilities to authentication as well as mail. It seems that this might be more easily done than wholesale conversion to long user names. Why shouldn't you have as many names for a user as you can stand (without additional entries in /etc/passwd)? The system would report the unique eight character passwd userid in the "who utilities" and logs reducing the need to deal with formatting issues. Of course that is yet another database in /etc that would have to be maintained but it could be optional. I'm sure there are other issues that would have to be addressed but it would be pretty useful. Glen Foster <gfoster@gfoster.com> >From: Jos Vissers <Jos.Vissers@telebyte.nl> >Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 11:12:10 +0200 (MET DST) >Cc: questions@freebsd.org, isp@freebsd.org > >We already have sendmail looking in a userdb for mail aliases and shadow >domains but some users just can't be made to understand that their >username is not the same as their email address. > >Jos
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