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- From: ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Login Name Administration & Conventions
- Message-ID: <10925@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 13:42:45 GMT
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- John Hurme (hurme@micro2.pb.com) wrote:
- : I would like to get some feedback on what administrators
- : are using for standards for UNIX login names and how
- : they are managing the logins in large networked environments.
-
- Time for my personal hobby-horse to be ridden I see . . .
-
- Rant mode on:
-
- Unless there is some specific management reason I personally see no
- reson to 'standardize' user names. Let the user pick his/her own.
- Now don't get me wrong, there are some situations where standardization
- can make life easier and is desirable but as a general rule I find a lot
- of cases where it is being done just to satisfy somebody's sense of 'order'
- You are using a computer, it should have the tools to let you identify real
- people by department or personal name or shoe size or whatever without
- enforcing some artificial naming convention.
-
- End rant.
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- * Bill Ranck ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu *
- * Computing Center at Virginia Tech, not Vermont ----------------------^^ *
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