From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 7 18:24:59 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA03392 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 18:24:59 -0800 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA03383 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 18:24:55 -0800 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id SAA26981; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 18:23:19 -0800 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199503080223.SAA26981@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: freebsd help (fwd) To: osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 18:23:19 -0800 (PST) Cc: bugs@ns1.win.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9503080025.AA00509@schizo.coe.montana.edu> from "Jaye Mathisen" at Mar 7, 95 05:25:25 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 689 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > Uh, with changing the size of usernames, what kind of interoperability > problems with other non-BSD systems for things like rsh, rcp, etc > are being introduced if any? I have no idea, but I figured I'd ask. My experience has been that when going from a system that accepts long usernames to short usernames the username just gets truncated by the destination machine. You can check this out by doing things like: rlogin some8usernamehost -l eightchr_SEE_IT_GOT_TRUNCATED You will have problems going the otherway :-(. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD