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3 total messages Started by Falgun V. Dave Wed, 30 Aug 1989 02:30

#90

Author: Falgun V. Dave
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1989 02:30

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Problem found with "whoami" command for SYS V.

When the login id is 8 characters long and if 
that person does "whoami" - nothing is responded 
and "whoami" slintly returns the prompt.

If login id is less than 8 characters than there 
is no problem.

Has anybody encountered this problem ?
What is the possible solution ?

Re: whoami

#91

Author: Leslie Mikesell
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1989 17:44

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In article <1989Aug30.023006.25440@i88.isc.com> fvd@i88.isc.com (Falgun V. Dave) writes:
>Problem found with "whoami" command for SYS V.

>When the login id is 8 characters long and if 
>that person does "whoami" - nothing is responded 
>and "whoami" slintly returns the prompt.

>If login id is less than 8 characters than there 
>is no problem.

>Has anybody encountered this problem ?
>What is the possible solution ?

I assume you mean "who am i" - my SysV machines don't have whoami.  This
has been the case for at least SysVr2.0 ->3.2.  I reported it a long time
ago.  One possible workaround (the one I used..) is to use the environment
variable LOGNAME instead, although that is less secure.  Or just make all
your login id's less than 8 characters long.
A related problem with the longer names is that mail to names which match
the 1st 8 characters of a login name is accepted and stored even though
the name differs past the 8th character.  For example, if you have
"longname" as a login id, mail to "longname5" will land in /usr/mail/longname5
instead of being rejected.

Les Mikesell

Re: whoami

#92

Author: Dave Yearke
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 1989 04:08

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In article <1989Aug30.023006.25440@i88.isc.com> fvd@i88.isc.com (Falgun V. Dave) writes:
>Problem found with "whoami" command for SYS V.
>
>When the login id is 8 characters long and if 
>that person does "whoami" - nothing is responded 
>and "whoami" slintly returns the prompt.
>
>If login id is less than 8 characters than there 
>is no problem.
>
>Has anybody encountered this problem ?
>What is the possible solution ?

If you have an AT&T computer, you can get a fix by calling the hotline.  The
fix for this bug is included with a much more important bug fix for the
"passwd" program.  I would contact your vendor if you don't have AT&T
equipment.

-- 
                Dave Yearke, Calspan Advanced Technology Center
                         ...!sunybcs!planck!yearke

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