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Date:      Sat, 22 Jun 1996 04:28:31 -0500
From:      "Bradley Dunn" <dunn@harborcom.net>
To:        Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Longer usernames?
Message-ID:  <199606220832.EAA27010@ns2.harborcom.net>

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On 20 Jun 96 at 20:00, Tom Samplonius wrote:

> > > > What do they do about NIS?  Truncate the usernames? Bad bad
> > > > bad.
> > > 
> > >   BSDI 2.1 doesn't have NIS.
> > 
> > Ah.
> 
>   This is major oversight in my opinion.

Especially for a company that markets its product as an "Internet 
Server". If you are going to base the major selling point of your 
product on its networking functionality, NIS seems to me to be almost 
a requirement.

Bradley Dunn <dunn@harborcom.net>



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