Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:25:33 -0500 From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long user names Message-ID: <3C4DF4ED.384442AC@glue.umd.edu> References: <F587MiUgjLuN4joBHCh0000cb70@hotmail.com>
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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... So if you're userid is jon@noc.example.com and email addresses are formed by appending "@<domain>" to the userid...does that make your email address jon@noc.example.com@noc.example.com? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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