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