Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 11:01:31 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeff Lynch <jeff@mercury.jorsm.com> To: Thad Smith <tsmith@sig.net> Cc: John Brown <jbrown@vafibre.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Username Alias Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970919105049.25094A-100000@mercury.jorsm.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970919083641.26274C-100000@austin.aus.sig.net>
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Note, of course, this affects only email addresses. The user still must use his 8 char logname for login, POP account and personal web directories (at least if using NCSA or Apache web server) to keep things simple. We use a default entry for RADIUS and use the Unix password database as well. We thought about doing this, but just about ANYBODY can buy a computer nowadays and we decided it was preferable to have ONE user identification string for all the services. We do provide aliases in special cases, but usually for someone who has multiple accounts and home, work, AOL etc and wants to read mail at the same place all the time. My opinion, doing this will be a headache in the future. You may not see it now, but things like this can get tiresome and be a real pain in the a** to eliminate later _when_ you find it less desirable. But then an alias for someone who _really_ wants it could provide additional income :) ========================================================================= Jeffrey A. Lynch, President JORSM Internet email: jeff@jorsm.com Northwest Indiana's Full-Service Provider Voice: (219)322-2180 927 Sheffield Avenue, Dyer, IN 46311 Autoresponse: info@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Thad Smith wrote: > On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, John Brown wrote: > > > I want to allow my users to be able to use longer usernames but am limited > > (as I was told earlier in this group). So is their a way to assign aliases > > to user login names? > > Check out the file /etc/aliases. In this file you can create aliases under > the format > > alias_name: user_name > > Where you decide the alias_name and point it to the user_name. You can > alse do multiple user names (seperated by a ,) and some other cool stuff. > After saving the file type 'newaliases' at the command prompt. > > Thad > > > (This may be a stupid question but I'm sure that I'm not the only FreeBSD > > user that has had this need) > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > ___________________"We make the Internet work."___________________ > Thad Smith tsmith@sig.net > Technical Support helpdesk@sig.net > SigNet Partners Inc. http://www.sig.net > 512.306.0700 800.396.5158 fax: 512.306.0702 > Tell us what you think; use the reply form at the address above! > __________________________________________________________________ > >
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