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Re: max_{login,group}len in /etc/security

From: John Hawkinson (jhawkMIT.EDU)
Date: Mon Apr 12 2004 - 12:45:46 CDT

Steven M. Bellovin <smbresearch.att.com> wrote on Sun, 11 Apr 2004
at 20:58:51 -0400 in <20040412005851.E51087B44berkshire.research.att.com>:

> I didn't check. It's amusing to look at, say, 'talkd', and see what it
> does. (I'll save you the trouble -- it uses source code, separately
> compiled, from 'who', creating a dependency which is in no way obvious
> to anyone hacking on the 'who' code.)

Since you noticed, would you care to put a comment in the 'who' code?

--jhawk