This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said:
>James Wilkinson wrote:
>
>> Er, I think this is illegal in unix-land. You need at least one alpha
>> character first. I think the syntax of usernames follows that of C
>> variable names.
>
>Keep trying.
>Numbers make it really handy to track people up to no good; first you
>have to copy the number correctly, then contact administration to find
>out who it is, then you start to have some idea of who is involved.
>
>Just great for personal service.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, so I'll assume you're not. I
don't see how a username stops you being anymore trackable than having a
usernumber. If people have some kind of id number, then perhaps a db to
look up name->id?
After 3 years of having an ugly usernumber at UNSW, I'm firmly against
it. I don't think the username is the place to store your unique id;
anyone who's done work with databases knows you don't make your id any
of the data fields.
I think I'm just rambling now, and this is going off topic.
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