current-users: Re: misc/2668: login-names >8 chars make no fun

Subject: Re: misc/2668: login-names >8 chars make no fun
To: Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
From: Tom I Helbekkmo <tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO>
List: current-users
Date: 08/23/1996 15:10:43

On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Michael L. VanLoon wrote:

> No, they were all DECstations.  It was on the text console, though --
> no graphics.

That would explain it.  The bug that prevented users with 8 character
login names from logging in was in the DECwindows login dialog code.

-tih
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Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO