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  From: <"/S=Macintosh/G=Brian/OU=stellaris/CN=Brian/"@server1.stellaris.com.au>
  To  : <adam.smith@sageautomation.com>
        < idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au>
  Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 13:19:25 +0930

RE: Re: [Sort of OT] Username Conventions

Hello,
The main thing is to find out if there are any standards already in 
place eg other computer systems etc. At a previous employer we reduced 
the characters in the surname by dropping vowels first. Once the 
standard is in place it is easy to work out the name from the userid. 
When we had more than one person with the same first initial and same 
surname we added the second initial or added or removed vowels from the 
surname.
regards,
Brian Macintosh
Consultant
Stellaris Consulting
8267 4111
brian@stellaris.com.au

-----Original Message-----
From: idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au [mailto:idavid@smug.adelaide.edu.au]
Sent: Friday, 18 May 2001 12:31 PM
To: adam.smith@sageautomation.com
Cc: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
Subject: FW: Re: [Sort of OT] Username Conventions


Hi,

> Guys, I need some opinions.
> 
> I would like to know what some of you use as your username 
conventions.
> 
> There's a company wide "Organization" thing happening here and 
there's a
> bunch of restructures involved in our IT department, and we're 
changing
> our organization from being based around a little company with a few
> people (where standardizations are less important) to a larger growing
> company with standards in place.
> 
> I would like to get some opinions of what people are using out there 
in
> the big wide world.

Most standard: first initial, 7 Characters of Surname.
Larger Organisations: first initial, second initial, 6 Characters of
Surname
Larger Organisations still, first initial, 5 characters of surname,
sequence number (01, 02 etc)

small organisations: first name only, or firstname and first initial of
surname

Other combinations I've seen include 3 letters of surname, first 
initial,
second initial sequence number. Real example was that Ian Sinclair 
Penrith
had a problem with his user name there.

With LDAP you also have an option of placing a tree structure in to 
reduce
the name space conflicts, and thus more flexibility in usernames.

cya

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