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- From: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Login Name Administration & Conventions
- Message-ID: <79372@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 16:05:08 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.211556.5284@pb.com> <10925@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
- Reply-To: glenns@eas.gatech.edu
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: The Group W Bench
- Lines: 16
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- In <10925@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> ranck@joesbar.cc.vt.edu (Wm. L. Ranck) writes:
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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.
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- <Unless there is some specific management reason I personally see no
- <reson to 'standardize' user names. Let the user pick his/her own.
- [rest of rant deleted for brevity]
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- Yeah, hear, here. Besides, isn't that what GECOS is for? That's
- what *I* use it for....
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- Glenn R. Stone (glenns@eas.gatech.edu)
- If you see the buddha on the net, DON'T give him a talk request.
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