Long machine names...

[Tim Winders]

On Fri, 22 May 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> On Thu, 21 May 1998, Jean-Francois Micouleau wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 22 May 1998, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > 
> > moved to samba-technical
> > 
> > > ok, try using the "map username = " option.  map "support2$" to "sup2$".
> > 
> > that's a solution for 1 or 2 machines ...
> 
> > How do you plan to put 15 char in an 8 char field of /etc/passwd ???
> 
> two really nasty solutions are:
> 
> 1) use a mangling system
> 2) map all $ accounts to "nobody"

Why is #2 "nasty".

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