<div><A href="http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp">http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp</A> </div> <div> </div> <div>Snopes calls this railroad story 'true but trivial'. "Triviality", of course, is more than 8 characters. </div> <div> </div> <div>Coincidence? </div> <div> </div> <div>M<BR><BR><B><I>Cyber Source <peter@thecybersource.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Ah the limits of 8 are still around and they still haunt!<BR>For the older guys that can still remember, the limits of 8 were<BR>always cropping up in the past. A few weeks ago, having still remembered<BR>this stuff while setting up Bob Meyers dads pc, we couldn't figure out<BR>why his gaim would not work with his usual passwords while when online<BR>via meebo, it worked just fine. So then I just put in his password for<BR>gaim using only
the first 8 characters and voila!<BR>I wanted to point out something that drove me nuts the past few days<BR>here. I put a call into Bob Meyer (no answer) and Dave Andruczyk to ask<BR>if they had ever had a situation where when a certain user was logged<BR>in, all there processes showed being run by the UID and not the name of<BR>the user. Dave had explained that he had seen this before and it's<BR>nothing to worry about. Me, having this happen on a fresh "dump" of the<BR>new Gutsy Gibbon thought there was something wrong in my install because<BR>every single time I created this user, the same thing. I could create<BR>others before and after and delete, etc.., with no problems, they all<BR>showed running PID's as the username. So I thought that there must be<BR>something in my install files that is linking to this persons previous<BR>install but could find nothing, checked /etc/passwd, /etc/group,<BR>/etc/shadow, nothing.<BR>Then I figured it out!<BR>As alot of times, I
get ideas when waking up or just away from it. The<BR>simple answer was is that the user name was more than 8 characters! Now,<BR>I tested it with multiple different user names and every one that has<BR>more than 8 characters, will show the PID's as the UID's and NOT the<BR>user name!!!<BR>Just in case someone else encounters this, they may recall this and<BR>realize what is going on....<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>nflug mailing list<BR>nflug@nflug.org<BR>http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR><DIV>
<P>Mark Robson</P></DIV><p> 
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