My weird login names

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-12-01 03:41, Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer at freebsd.org> wrote:
>On 12/1/06, Ruslan Ermilov <ru at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> P.S.  BTW, what info{farmer,sat} mean?  You can reply in
>> private and in Russian.  ;)
> 
> OK, since you ask, it might as well go down in history ;-)

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for this post!

I was kind of wondering where infosat/infofarmer came from,
but didn't get around to asking at Milan.  Now I know :)

> I knew that a 10-letter login name ("infofarmer") could cause
> some problems, so I thought, to hell with it, and gave the
> login I already used on many boxes, which was "sat".

HEH!  The username-length limits of SunOS 4.X are responsible for
``keramida'' dropping a final 's' too :-)