[Info-vax] SSH on VAX - performance impact of break in attempts

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In article <10704b0a-87e3-4a0d-8486-6701add7656b at v35g2000prn.googlegroups.com>, Ken Fairfield <ken.fairfield at gmail.com> writes:
>On Aug 25, 1:16=A0pm, glen herrmannsfeldt <g... at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>> Michael Moroney <moro... at world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote:
>> >>VAXman- wrote:
>> >>(snip)
>> >>> The 12 character username prohibits the 'administrator' account.
>> Then I wrote:
>> >>I thought that was changed a long time ago.
>>
>> (snip)
>>
>> >>I believe I was asked if I wanted all 14, but I was too used to
>> >>the other one by then.
>> > Doesn't VMS simply ignore all characters after the first 12? =A0I think
>> > my audit server logs show many breakin attempts against the nonexistent
>> > ADMINISTRATO account.
>>
>> It did for early versions, but around 1986 or so it changed.
>>
>> I was told at the time that it changed to allow longer names,
>> but at least I know it didn't truncate them.
>[...]
>
>I think what you're remembering is that VMS initially had
>9.3 file names, and similarly, the username was limited to
>9 characters (or 8 ? "operator" is the longest "old" VMS-
>provided account).  I don't know if it was required in those
>early versions of VMS, but it was certainly ubiquitous
>to name the user's sys$login directory the same as
>their username, thus making the 9 (or 8) character username
>limit sensible (if in fact it was that short in, e.g., VMS 1).
>
>Along about VMS 4 (could have been VMS 3, but I think
>that's too early), VMS extended files names to 39.39 and the
>username limit was extended to 12 characters.  I remember
>the change pretty vividly as it allow a bunch of us to change
>our usernames (and login directories) to use our last names
>rather than our initials+tla. :-)

I'm still waiting to use my lastname (surname).

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