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- From: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Login Name Administration & Conventions
- Message-ID: <79435@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 21:54:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.211556.5284@pb.com> <10925@vtserf.cc.vt.edu> <79372@hydra.gatech.EDU> <TNJWBXJ8@cc.swarthmore.edu>
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- Organization: The Group W Bench
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- In <TNJWBXJ8@cc.swarthmore.edu> eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) writes:
-
- >Well, [while] in principle I agree that letting people call themselves whatever
- >they want is nice, there is a usefullness in making account names
- >meaningful:
- [...]
- > o in a _large_ setting with thousands of users, standardized
- > names are easier to manage and remember. Especially
- > across different machines. What if I was gonzo@ralph,
- > but gonzo was already taken at the main machine...
-
- >Some solutions include having a mail routing host which allows any
- >names you want and then forwards it to real names.
-
- That's what Tech is currently implementing.... aliases look like
- first.last@dept.gatech.edu, which is simply an entry in /etc/aliases
- on whatever machine "dept.gatech.edu" points at (this can be an MX or
- a real machine) that resolves things to where they really want to be.
-
- This isn't perfect; there's no real good way to rewrite the outgoing
- addresses (YP? NOT!) even if you wanted to.... especially since this
- hasta work with POP on both Macs and PC's as well as Unix boxen....
- but it at least gives off-campus and cross-campus folk a way to
- easily remember what their compatriots' mail addresses are...
-
- my two cents' worth
-
- Glenn R. Stone (glenns@eas.gatech.edu)
- glenn.stone@eas.gatech.edu
- postmaster@eas.gatech.edu
-