Re: user name length
On Fri, 17 May 2002, Glenn Hocking wrote:
> Sorry but I'm using standard sendmail and qpopper. The stickhost and
> virtusertable 'features' have been around for a while. I've been using
> this setup since 1996 with great success.
We misunderstand each other. I thought it was desired to have the UNIX
(and POP3) username be username@domain. Can you explain your working
setup?
I have also used sendmail's virtusertable workaround for many years. I am
not sure how you could use full user@domain as the virtusertable alias
(right hand side) and sendmail would know that it was really a local
getpwent username (and not relay to @domain). I have only read about
stickyhost -- does it solve that problem?
I am also confused how it can reliably work with qpopper since several
POP3 clients automatically get rid of the at-sign and domain. (I don't
think standard qpopper can be configured to use an alternative character
and then replace it with an at-sign before doing a getpwnam(3).)
As for user name length, I did several tests the past few years with
Debian Linux (and some BSDs) with long user names. I have had usernames
with over hundred characters (with Debian Linux) that I was successfully
able to use for email (exim MTA and vm-pop3d,gnu-pop3d and others), logins
(login, ssh), ftp and more. (Some of my notes about this are probably
available in this list's archives; I need to find and publish on a
webpage.)
Jeremy C. Reed
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