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Re: moira field lengths

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Nov 12 14:58:28 1996

From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: danw@MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Cc: moiradev@MIT.EDU, moira-admin@MIT.EDU, accounts@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Nov 1996 17:00:17 EST."
             <199611102200.RAA17248@technomage.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 14:58:07 EST

field length>

I seem to recall accounts asking about a name when registering a user,
but I don't remember any details (well I remember that the limit was
17, but nothing else) including whether it was a client or a server
issue.  Anyone from accounts remember this?


> Also, a poll: currently, moira silently truncates any arguments that
> are too long to fit into the database. It would be trivial to change
> this to make it return an error message instead. (The error number

With out knowing any more details, this seems like it would be a good
thing.

	Jonathon

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