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- From: millerje@CS.ColoState.EDU (Jeff Miller)
- Subject: Are long login names okay?
- Sender: news@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (News Account)
- Message-ID: <Dec30.175828.52626@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:58:28 GMT
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- Organization: Colorado State University, Computer Science Department
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- In setting up the LAN at work, it was decided that all logins would have
- the first initial of the first name, and the last name (i.e. jmiller). I've
- run into a problem where in the login script, Netware will not map a drive
- when the name is > 8 characters (why does Netware use this DOS convention?)
- For example:
- map N:=fserv1/SYS:USERS/%LOGIN_NAME
-
- If the login is hlonglastname, the home directory is USERS/hlonglas
-
- Now my question: Should I make all logins 8 characters instead, truncating
- the last name, or should I modify the login script to look for the static
- exceptions (we only have a few people who dont fit the 8 characters), or is
- there a utility that gives NW scripts a string length and truncate function,
- so I could do:
- IF SLEN("%LOGIN_NAME") > 8 THEN map N:=fserv1/SYS:USERS/STRUNC( etc.
-
- Thanks for any help.
-
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