[272] in Kerberos
Re: kerberos login suggestions.
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Tue Dec 1 11:16:42 1987
From: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
>I was afraid of that. In that case, how does the * work on dialin
>passthrough? Does the last character of long usernames get
>truncated?
Yes. But a comment in <utmp.h> implies that the size of '8' is not
magic; however, I don't want to think about what would break if it
were changed.
Perhaps the fix _might_ be to stick the information into the "ut_host"
field (which is 16 characters long) instead.
I hate fixed-length-field databases.
- Bill
