While I might agree to that somewhat, it fails when you also use the
userid for other things, such as email, where the userid is 'public'.
But, uses of alias for public view can resolve that issue.
For instance, my email userid at 'vse2pdf.com' is not 'tony', it's
something else. t...@vse2pdf.com is an alias. So, any attempt to log
into my email server using t...@vse2pdf.com will always fail.
Tony Thigpen
Michael Brennan wrote on 7/15/23 6:05 PM:
A good userid scheme should not identify who the userid belongs to or the
job function of the person. Several places I have worked had this
philosophy. All userids that belonged to a human began with the letter U
followed by 3 to 6 random characters and numbers.
On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 4:22 PM Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote:
I've seen various schemes used for creating up-to-eight-character userids,
all truncated as needed, of course. These are IDs I've had, won't tell ya
where each was (and omitting just firstname, just lastname, or intials):
1. First initial, last name, plus a number as needed: PSMITH, PSMITH1
2. Last name || first name, with number if necessary, but always
including first initial: SMITHIIP, or SMITHIP2 if needed
3. First three of last name, first two of first name, plus a number:
SMIPH03 (I've always wondered how they'd deal with Kyle Fuchs or Tyrone
Shipman)
4. First initial, last name, truncated to max of six with a two-digit
number: I was PSMITH87; friend was TSMITH99-we never found out what the
next T. Smith would get: would they reuse a hole, if any, or go to TSMIT100?
Anyone got any other variations? This is purely a curiosity item, no
agenda.
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