Well, non-quantum-state computers cannot deal with ambiguity. :)
> From: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 18:21:08 -0400 > Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Adding employeeNumber field in ADUC user property > window > To: [email protected] > > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Maglinger, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > > From a user perspective - if you were a woman who went through a > > particularly nasty divorce, would you really want to be reminded of that > > every time you logged in? > > I've seen some places that use an employee ID number or similar for > the username (logon name, SAM account name, whatever you want to call > it) for this reason, among others. Then people complain that their ID > is hard to remember. > > You can't please everybody all the time. > > I will say that changing the username breaks all sorts of things in > weird ways. I recommend never ever doing it. If keeping a username > is intolerable, create a new account and archive/delete the old one. > This isn't just a Windows thing, it's everywhere. Computers cannot > cope with ambiguity. > > -- Ben > >
