[windows2000] Re: Username Formatting Preferences
- From: "Jeff Stockard" <jstockard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:50:33 -0400
We are in an educational environment. We have 19 schools so user names
get repeated a lot. We use first initial followed by last name. If the
name comes up as a duplicate, we add more letters from the first name.
Hope this helps
Jeff
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Subject: [windows2000] Username Formatting Preferences
For numerous reasons, I've become curious as to both username and mail
name
preferences among netadmins/sysadmins/anyone working in IT, etc. Because
that
is probably as clear as mud, I'll elaborate (and in all examples of
names, I'll
be using my own name, Andrew Shriner, and geekdrew.net as the domain):
One company that I've worked with has their domain username policy
defined as
AndrewShriner, while they have their e-mail addressing policy defined as
ashriner@; they don't have a well defined policy on what happens if
there are
duplicate usernames or addressing names; they are simply dealt with by
whichever admin creates the account.
Another company that I work with uses AndrewShriner as the domain
username, and
AndrewShriner@ for addressing; in case of duplication, they start
inserting
characters building the middle name, and append numbers to the end of
the names
if duplication occurs on completely full names (which has yet to
happen).
A university I've worked with uses Shriner.X for addressing, where X is
a number
from 1 to i, incrementally. They have no defined username strucutre; it
depends
on what department you're a member of and what type of coffee your
netadmin had
that day as to what your domain username might wind up being.
Another university I've worked with uses XY for domain authentication
and
addressing, where X is 'as' (first initial, last initial), and Y is a
five
digit number, incrementing upon X.
The school district I work for at the moment has a domain user naming
scheme
consisting of aShriner (lowercase first initial, full last name (I'm not
going
to get into the case sensitivity debate in regards to this policy;
that's the
way it's written. I wouldn't mind hearing your thoughts on it though))
and the
addressing scheme follows the domain username -or- FirstName.LastName@
(this
policy is staff only). All of our students are assigned to a certain
vocational
program, and their usernames follow format CSaShriner, where CS is their
assigned program code. I've personally got more than a little tired of
this
scheme, for numerous reasons (namely, renaming student accounts *all the
time*
when they move between programs). Another netadmin and I are discussing
proposing ShrinerAndrew becoming the username of choice for all users,
and
inserting the middle name at the end for duplication.
So... what format does everyone prefer, and for what reasons? Answer one
or the
other, or both, if you will. I'm particularly interested in opinions
regarding
a corporate setting, but those applying to education are always welcome
too!
:)
And now, I need to learn to be less long-winded.
Thanks, y'all.
Drew
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