From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 19:49:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f58.law7.hotmail.com [216.33.237.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 752A837B405 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:49:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:49:44 -0800 Received: from 63.170.174.187 by lw7fd.law7.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 03:49:44 GMT X-Originating-IP: [63.170.174.187] From: "Jon Larssen" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Long user names Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 03:49:44 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Jan 2002 03:49:44.0875 (UTC) FILETIME=[D47E3FB0:01C1A2F7] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 @. 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