Re: [cobalt-users] Lite user name

["Cyril" <cyril.borand@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

ok, thanks !

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Lite user name


> "shimi" <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 May 2001, Cyril wrote:
> >
> > > When I add a user on a domain, I have a limit of 12 caracteres.
> > > I want more, it's possible ?
>
> Cyril, you probably have valid reasons, but I suggest limiting names to 8
> characters.  When your a directory listing using the "ls" command only the
> first 8 characters of the owner of a file are displayed.  So if you have
> longer usernames it's difficult to tell who owns a file.  I name my users
> using the following convention:
>
> 1st char : code for the particular server the user is on
> Char 2-4 : site number
> Char 5-8 : user number for site
>
> So my users look like c0580012 and I can easily tell from the username the
> server and site the user belongs to.  In addition, it makes it more
> difficult for non-users to guess usernames to try to access the server as
> since public email addresses and human names are not found in the
usernames.
> YMMV.
>
> > Don't think so, but if what you want is some long e-mail like
> > joe.is.very.bored@xxxxxxxxxxxx, I think u can put that in the aliases
for
> > a shorter username, and that would work, although *I am not sure* about
> > that. What I am sure is that the GUI will yell if it's possible, so,
give
> > it a shot :)
>
> Yes, you can definitely create a username up to 12 characters and assign
> really long email aliases.  I don't know what the limit is for email
aliases
> in sendmail, but it's probably something like 63 or 255 or some other
binary
> power raised minus one type value.
>
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