[ucc] username standards in big corporate places

[Alex Dawson]

In 2001 (iirc) we moved to "Standard Usernames", which worked out to  
surname (first 5 chars) + first initial + sequence. The solution you  
presumably were involved with was not desired by the University  
because you got non-standard username construction, bad collision  
avoidance, etc. Too much personality :P

On 02/07/2007, at 3:05 PM, Craig Richmond wrote:

> At 9:59 +0800 2/7/07, Alex Dawson wrote:
>> On 29/06/2007, at 8:58 PM, Andrew Shugg wrote:
>>> In other places I've been andrew, aws, andrews, shugga, shugga01.  I
>>> don't remember what I was in each of the different computing
>>> environments at UWA, but I remember having different accounts in
>>> Engineering (and different again in NT and Unix), CS, etc.
>>
>> Thanks to a lot of work by [MTL] and [GMB], UWA now has a standard  
>> username for students that most parts of the university use. The  
>> places that don't, will use the student number.
>
> I'm not sure it's the same initiative, but with help from UCS, I  
> tried to get that kick started back in about 96 while I was working  
> for ECEL.  We even had people at a desk up at the enrollment days  
> in the undercroft letting new students reserve a preferred username.
>
> Craig
>

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