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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Sep 16 18:55:07 1988
From: <qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 88 18:54:31 EDT
To: epeisach@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, sms-bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
> Rigister: If you type in 10 characters for your username, on pressing
> the tenth character it informs you are not allowed to type more than 10
> characters. Perhaps it should be 9? Or perhaps there is a counter error
> in register.
> Typing a nine letter username then responds at a later stage that eight
> characters is the max. What is the real story?
> Ezra
> --[0954]--
The real story is that if we made it 9 characters, curses would
intepret the carriage return at the end of the line as the ninth
character, causing it to indirectly reject all eight character names.
Perhaps (well, definitely) the client as well as the server should do
an explicit check of the length of the username (rather than letting
curses do it) (if this is not already being done (did it take a
significant amount of time to respond with an error?)).
Jay Berkenbilt
P.S. (I like oddly nested (math-like) parentheses in ordinary text.)
