Length of User names

[Tom Christiansen]

>From the keyboard of imp at solbourne.com (Warner Losh):
:In article <1991May31.173152.791 at mlb.semi.harris.com>
:dcb at dave.mis.semi.harris.com (Dave Brillhart) writes:
:>At Harris, we finally decided to use the VMS standard of first
:>initial last name (truncated to 8 characters).  Kind of a  pain :-( 
:
:This is especially a *PAIN* when the system administrator sees "M.
:Warner Losh" and gives you the login "mlosh" and people send mail to
:"wlosh" since your name is Warner.  Fee and a pox be on all ye that
:try to standarize login names.

Most sendmail configurations will accept mail to firstname.lastname
or firstname_lastname instead of to that person's login.  No fuzzy
logic involved, though: it has to match the gcos field exactly, 
modulo case of course.   Why not just tell people to do this?  Finger
can also help to locate login names.

--tom
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