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Re: [cobalt-users] Linux User Ignorance,
- Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Linux User Ignorance,
- From: "Fathi Said" <fathi@xxxxxx>
- Date: Fri Mar 3 15:48:04 2000
- Organization: Hosting-Network, Inc.
Jeff,
> What do you do if their user name is already eight characters? Just use
> the first five characters? I suppoe that work if no one else at their
> company has the same first five characters, but that could be a problem in
> companies that use lastname-first initial as their user names.
We always take the name the Cobalt UI suggests, and if this username already
exists, I just append number to it. Like "jpicard1" and so on.
Fathi