Length of User names
Tom Christiansen
tchrist at convex.COM
Sun Jun 2 00:47:52 AEST 1991
>From the keyboard of imp at solbourne.com (Warner Losh):
:In article <1991May31.173152.791 at mlb.semi.harris.com>
:dcb at dave.mis.semi.harris.com (Dave Brillhart) writes:
:>At Harris, we finally decided to use the VMS standard of first
:>initial last name (truncated to 8 characters). Kind of a pain :-(
:
:This is especially a *PAIN* when the system administrator sees "M.
:Warner Losh" and gives you the login "mlosh" and people send mail to
:"wlosh" since your name is Warner. Fee and a pox be on all ye that
:try to standarize login names.
Most sendmail configurations will accept mail to firstname.lastname
or firstname_lastname instead of to that person's login. No fuzzy
logic involved, though: it has to match the gcos field exactly,
modulo case of course. Why not just tell people to do this? Finger
can also help to locate login names.
--tom
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