Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 18:23:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: osyjm@schizo.coe.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) Cc: bugs@ns1.win.net, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: freebsd help (fwd) Message-ID: <199503080223.SAA26981@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <9503080025.AA00509@schizo.coe.montana.edu> from "Jaye Mathisen" at Mar 7, 95 05:25:25 pm
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> > > 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
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