[6755] in Athena Bugs
finger: The case of Saltzer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Jan 1 04:49:26 1991
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 91 04:49:14 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: sethf@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: bugs[5872]
From: sethf@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 90 01:36:10 -0400
% hesinfo Saltzer passwd
Saltzer:*:994:101:Jerome H Saltzer,,E40-391AM,3-6016,:/mit/Saltzer:/bin/csh
% f Saltzer@mit
[MIT.MIT.EDU]
Data loaded as of 06/15/90. Please don't send mail here to change
your listing; notify the Registrar or Personnel as appropriate.
-Use "finger help@mit.edu" for some instructions.-
Saltzer, Jerome H
ne43-513 (617) 253-6016
ELEC ENG & COMP SCI, Professor
Electronic mail address: saltzer@athena.mit.edu
Unfortunately, this cannot be fixed. The people who run mit.mit.edu
get the data from the registrar all in upper case, and make a best
guess at the correct capitalization. And no, I don't think it's
reasonable to ask them to special-case Saltzer in their code :-). In
any case, "saltzer" is a valid mail address for him.
% f Saltzer@athena
[athena.MIT.EDU]
Login name: saltzer In real life: Jerome H Saltzer
Nickname: Home phone:
Office: E40-391A MIT Office phone: 3-6016
Electronic mail address: saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
I've fixed this one (I wrote the finger software running on
athena.mit.edu right now), and the fix will appear when the postmaster
installs the new finger daemon.
Thank you for the bug report, and I am sorry for the delay in
responding to it.
Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance
