Re: majordomo und X-Authentication-Warning

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From: Marc SCHAEFER
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 00:00

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Sven Kirmess <Sven.Kirmess@gmx.net> wrote:
> Muss ich da irgendwelche Probleme bef�rchten (oder k�rzt linux majordomo
> einfach auf majordom)?

In theory yes, since *some* software expects 8 characters, not more.
However, the most you risk is presumably confusion (but you are
not going to create a majordom2 user, are you ? :)), and maybe a
few core-dumps of certain programs (passwd, etc) which are not
used in normal operation.

So, change it, that would be a ``safe'' way.

> > That's why SuSE has mdom for the majordomo user).

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