>> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 11:32:50AM -0400, Coy Hile wrote: >> > On 4/27/07, Christopher D. Clausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> > >>> what do I have to do to rename a user. >> > >> > Interesting idea, but it does beg the question why rename the username >> > at all? Update the GECOS and perhaps mail aliases, but why change the >> > principal? >> >> Because when Mary Jones marries John Doe, 'mjones' makes a lot >> less sense than 'mdoe' as a principal. >> --david > >Sounds like a great argument for meaningless user/principal names -- >unfortunately, folks don't like the idea of being NQ37821. > >Steve Brown >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just as a point of interest - about 7 years ago the University of Connecticut made a decision that all user accounts (around 40,000 NetIDs at the time) would be of the form aaa11222, where aaa are the user's initials, 11 is the year of account creation, and 222 is an incrementing uniquifier. There was a bit of pain at first, getting our faculty/staff to accept the form, but that has been worth it to avoid renames and battles. Now that all account names are "equally ugly", we no longer have new upper-management "Mike Smith" demanding that some student "Matt Smith" give up his "msmith" account. And the format is "simple enough" that users don't seem to have problems remembering it. And, most users do not have seem to have too much problem keeping their initials, even in the case of a marriage/divorce. Just my $0.02, -Matt _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
