From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 7 12:54:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA22422 for isp-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:54:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-gw.dalsys.com (i-gw.dalsys.com [207.42.153.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA22414 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by i-gw.dalsys.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA20859 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 14:54:52 -0500 Received: from future.dsc.dalsys.com(199.170.161.3) by i-gw.dalsys.com via smap (V1.3) id sma020856; Mon Oct 7 14:54:43 1996 Received: from richards.dsc.dalsys.com by future.dsc.dalsys.com (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/8.6.12) id AA114761; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 14:59:46 -0500 Message-Id: <32597D3F.383B@herald.net> Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 14:59:27 -0700 From: Richard Stanford Organization: Herald Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD ISP list Subject: Re: User name length limit increase References: <199610071824.LAA05970@athena.tera.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Gary Kline wrote: > anywhere? How does Sun, for one, get away with logins > like `john.q.engineer@eng.sun.com'?? Well, that's an email address, not a login -- which is probably an alias to something unpronouncable like enginejq on the eng machine. It's a fair question, though. My system skills aren't good enough that I feel comfortable changing the length and diving into whichever critical piece of software no longer works, but I'd love to be able to offer longer usernames... -Richard