[276] in Kerberos
Re: kerberos login suggestions.
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Jerome H. Saltzer)
Tue Dec 1 16:11:54 1987
To: Jim Bloom <jb%cs.brown.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>
Cc: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>, Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Jim Bloom <jb%cs.brown.edu@RELAY.CS.NET>'s message of Tue, 01 Dec 87 13:30:18 EST
From: Jerome H. Saltzer <Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
> To change the size of the fields, you would have to look at every
> program that uses <utmp.h>. Many of them probably use string routines
> with a count of "8" instead of using a sizeof(). There may even be a
> few programs that assume null termination floating around.
Wouldn't touch this one with a ten foot pole.
Jerry
