[1024] in Moira
Re: moira field lengths
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Nov 12 17:06:25 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Cc: danw@MIT.EDU (Dan Winship), moiradev@MIT.EDU, moira-admin@MIT.EDU,
accounts@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "11 Nov 1996 09:47:18 EST."
<t53zq0o3czt.fsf@rover.cygnus.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 17:04:37 EST
> >> So, are there any fields that people think are too short now and ought
> >> to be lengthened?
>
> Is the user shell length still 32? This should be at least 64, and if
> the database rep is efficient, MAXPATHLEN.
Would this cause problems if something else truncated the field later
(ie some login program only allowing 32 chars). I guess it's probably
ok, if moira is automatically truncating to 32 chars now anyway. but
it might make things a little more confusing.
Jonathon
