Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Sep 1999 23:37:24 +0400 (MSD) | From | Khimenko Victor <> | Subject | Re: numerical username |
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On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Alan Curry wrote:
> Khimenko Victor writes the following: > > > >ntalk will dislike long names (>11 characters long) as well. Quota... Hmm... > >What's broken there ? > > #!/bin/sh > # Send warning mail to all users over soft quota > repquota -a | awk '$3 > $4 { print $1 }' | > while read u; do mail $u < /usr/lib/quotawarning.txt; done > It's broken script, yes, but it's not broken quota tools. We have usernames 15-20 characters long and most tools work just fine. Of course lots of reporting tools will truncate usernames in messages but it's not a big problem really...
> When you follow the rules, the tools work. When you break the rules, the > tools break. glibc developers are not gods and they do not have the power to > change the fact that 8 characters is the rule.
8 characters is NOT the rule. It's obsoleted convention.
> Increasing the size of some username buffers inside glibc is > meaningless at best. At worst, it encourages people to create usernames > that will break dozens of standard tools. >
It break VERY few standard tools. It break few bad scripts, but it's not an issue.
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