Subject: Re: misc/2668: login-names >8 chars make no fun
To: Tom I Helbekkmo <tih@Hamartun.Priv.NO>
From: Michael L. VanLoon <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
List: current-users
Date: 08/22/1996 22:25:32
>On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Michael L. VanLoon wrote:
>> Huh?!?!  I, "michaelv", logged in to bunches of old Ultrix consoles
>> without problems...

>Using the DECwindows login dialog on the graphical console?  Was that
>on a VAXstation, maybe?  Ours were DECstations, which might make a
>difference.

No, they were all DECstations.  It was on the text console, though --
no graphics.  We had a modified X console on all the workstations that
was heavily kerberozed, hesiozied, etc.  But the servers just had
headless tty consoles.

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