From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 22 15:25:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po4.glue.umd.edu (po4.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.124]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E9437B400 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 15:25:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from glue.umd.edu (darkstar.umd.edu [128.8.215.163]) by po4.glue.umd.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g0MNPWR21550 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:25:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C4DF4ED.384442AC@glue.umd.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 18:25:33 -0500 From: Brandon Fosdick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Long user names References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Jon Larssen wrote: > > 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... So if you're userid is jon@noc.example.com and email addresses are formed by appending "@" to the userid...does that make your email address jon@noc.example.com@noc.example.com? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message