From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 19:56:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA6D137B404 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 19:56:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (adsl-64-219-30-193.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.30.193]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA25052; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:56:03 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020121215600.01831ca0@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 21:56:00 -0600 To: "Jon Larssen" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: Long user names In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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: One of my host accounts uses thousands of email usernames (as part of user/pwd login) that run up to 35 characters or so, but makes use of a mysql database to do it.... that's about all I can tell you as a hint.... At 03:49 AM 1.22.2002 +0000, 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... > >Given the limit on FreeBSD 16 characters per username can anyone give me a >counter proposal to those system designer guys? (I admit that the whole >email-address-as-username looks good, but I think I'll have trouble >integrating it into the network.) I'm very open to ideas at this point. > >Best regards, >Jon. > >PS. How is this related to FreeBSD? Because in a couple of FreeBSD servers >we'll have the company-wide user directory (replicated LDAP), email services >(SMTP & IMAP) and a Squid cache/proxy. Oh, this is a 96% Windows based >network. > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin =================================================== Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com "My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; ....situation excellent! ....I shall attack!" =================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message