From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 20 20:04:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA09980 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 20:04:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA09972 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 20:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id NAA08401; Fri, 21 Jun 1996 13:04:59 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199606210334.NAA08401@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Longer usernames? To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 13:04:58 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Tom Samplonius" at Jun 20, 96 08:00:45 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying: > > It's a little more subtle that than. Using long username in NIS does > work with a non-FreeBSD NIS slave server (SunOS 4.1) that I > tried. It's just that that non-FreeBSD NIS clients that have a smaller > username length, fail to work with these long usernames as predicted. Fair enough. Is the failure mode obvious and benign? (ie. the long-name user can't login at all, or does the client core? Or is it possible that longusernameA could be accidentally identified as longusernameB?) > Why don't we make the global change to 16, similar to BSDI, and just > print warnings in pwd_mkdb on reading a longer username? Also, adding a > check to NIS map build process should adequately warn those who cross the > line. This sounds fair enough. You should pursue Bill Paul about this for authorative comment on the NIS issues, and then perhaps do a sweep over the ports collection looking for problems there. I realise that's quite a lot of work, but it's worth doing it properly 8) > Tom -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[