On 4/23/07, Roger Burton West <[email protected]> wrote:
The only really practical approach seems to be to let people choose whatever username they like, and have lots of role aliases.
Which would be what we do here. On your first day of work/study, you log in to the 'accounts' service (web thingo, use your name and bank details/student number/other secret). First thing it does is suggest some possible usernames, including a text field where you can enter your own. You *also* get the mail aliases of the [email protected] form much-loved by managers and that causes much more trouble because those are refreshed every year. But as we have at least three major subdomains for mail (staff, ugrad, pgrad) there's less clashing than there might otherwise be. Nothing is ever perfect, all you can really do is try to limit how much it's going to suck. Matt
