Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:56:00 -0600 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: "Jon Larssen" <jonlarssen@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long user names Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20020121215600.01831ca0@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <F587MiUgjLuN4joBHCh0000cb70@hotmail.com>
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Jon: One of my host accounts uses thousands of email usernames (as part of user/pwd login) that run up to 35 characters or so, but makes use of a mysql database to do it.... that's about all I can tell you as a hint.... At 03:49 AM 1.22.2002 +0000, Jon Larssen wrote: >Hello, > >I've been charged with the implementation here at my company of a >company-wide single-sign-in (or login), much like MS Passport is. The >problem is that the designers decided to use the "global" usernames of the >form <user>@<domain>. For instance, my network username would be: > > jon@noc.example.com > >The rationale is very simple: give the users a login name they can remember, >make them "pretty" and human readable, and, above all, make them unique. You >know, we actually have jon@example.com and jon@noc.example.com, so both of >us need unique usernames. The designers wanted to have the email addresses >for login names, not something like jlarssen21... > >Given the limit on FreeBSD 16 characters per username can anyone give me a >counter proposal to those system designer guys? (I admit that the whole >email-address-as-username looks good, but I think I'll have trouble >integrating it into the network.) I'm very open to ideas at this point. > >Best regards, >Jon. > >PS. How is this related to FreeBSD? Because in a couple of FreeBSD servers >we'll have the company-wide user directory (replicated LDAP), email services >(SMTP & IMAP) and a Squid cache/proxy. Oh, this is a 96% Windows based >network. > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin =================================================== Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com "My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; ....situation excellent! ....I shall attack!" =================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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