Subject: Re: max_{login,group}len in /etc/security
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
List: tech-security
Date: 04/12/2004 13:45:46
Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com> wrote on Sun, 11 Apr 2004
at 20:58:51 -0400 in <20040412005851.E51087B44@berkshire.research.att.com>:

> I didn't check.  It's amusing to look at, say, 'talkd', and see what it 
> does.  (I'll save you the trouble -- it uses source code, separately 
> compiled, from 'who', creating a dependency which is in no way obvious 
> to anyone hacking on the 'who' code.)

Since you noticed, would you care to put a comment in the 'who' code?

--jhawk