Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: HoneyDanBer uucp question
Keywords: uucp SystemV
Message-ID: <1195@becker.UUCP>
Date: 27 Nov 89 09:14:45 GMT
References: <572@starfire.UUCP>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
Lines: 26

In article <572@starfire.UUCP> john@starfire.UUCP (John Lind) writes:
|NOTE: respond by e-mail -- my site doens't get this group anymore!
|
|What can I tell System V HoneyDanBer System Administrators that I want to
|call so that they can set up their Systems and Permissions files so that
|I can call them?  It seems to have something to do with my long system
|name.  Both of the SysV HDB systems that I want to communicate with can
|call me, and everything goes just fine.  When I call them, they give me
|"You are unknown to me."  HELP!!

	Some uucp implementations send only the first
	6 or 7 characters of the system name.  If this
	is true of your system, you need to have that
	name in the MACHINE and VALIDATE fields.
	LOGNAME is restricted to 8 characters since
	that's all most password files will handle.
	You will probably have interesting problems with
	"smail" on the HDB sites as well (if they use it),
	if this turns out to be the problem...

Cheers,
-- 
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