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- From: eric@sejnet.sunet.se (Eric Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Username Lengths-Looking for an Explanation
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.024504.1@sejnet.sunet.se>
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- Sender: news@sunic.sunet.se
- Reply-To: ERIC@SEARN.SUNET.SE
- Organization: SUNET, Stockholm, Sweden
- References: <0096069C.A2990300.10430@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:45:04 GMT
-
- In article <0096069C.A2990300.10430@PANAM1.PANAM.EDU>, "James F. Burnett--University of Texas-PanAm" <burnett@PANAM.BITNET> writes:
- > We created a new user with a 9 character username. That user logged
- > in and subscribed to a couple of mailing lists(both very active lists)
-
- Users with login names longer than 8 bytes MUST subscribe via mail, not SEND.
- The protocol used by BITNET supports userids of up to 8 bytes only.
-
- > I fixed the problem by defining an alias for that user but began
- > wondering/thinking about how many other usernames we have that are
- > 8+ characters long and about the poor soul who replaces me when I decide
- > to leave here who generates 1000 student usernames one semester that
- > are each 10 characters long. WOW !
-
- I suspect the 8-bytes prefix was not unique in the case of this particular
- user. That is, there were several UAF entries starting with these 8 bytes.
-
- Eric
-