Machine accounts invalid, sort of.

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Fri, 15 May 1998, Kevin Currie wrote:

> 
> > ah.  how many machines do you have: what is the length of the name of:
> 
> 	about 120 eventaully, right now about 50.  the length of the names
> is 8 characters including the dollar sign.

every single machine is 8 characters in length?  hm.
 
> > - the user you are logging in as
> 
> 	usernames are all lowercase or numeric.  i've tried a few of them,
> that x7currie, caetmp, caesmb as examples.
> 
> > - the machine name
> 
> 	machines names are as follows (using bash style brace expansion)
> 	cae-{a,b,c,d,z}{00-50}$
> 
> > can you do a case-by-case analysis for me, as there may be an alignment
> > problem (it's what it sounds like)
> 
> 	we had an alignment problem compiling w/ gcc a long while back.

ah, this is to do with the dce/rpc code...