[ucc] username standards in big corporate places

Craig Richmond craig at richmond.echidna.id.au
Mon Jul 2 15:05:45 WST 2007


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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