Re: [TUHS] Of login names

Paul Osborne <paosborne(a)gmail.com> wrote: We have a similar scheme which has been running (with minor changes) for about 40 years, with a throughput of about 250,000 people in the last 20 years (the era of bulk user registration). A while back I wrote a note about some of the reasons it works well, but I didn't mention that if someone ends up with an unfortunate username, we can (modulo language barriers) blame the parents... http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/misc/crsids.pdf We also allocate unique permanent Unix UIDs for everyone. This numbering started in 1982, and with some foresight my (mostly retired) colleagues decided to start numbering at 100, to allow space for system IDs. Unfortunately nowadays a few of my older colleagues have UIDs that clash with preallocated system UIDs on some recent Linux distributions. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot(a)dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ - I xn--zr8h punycode Viking, North Utsire: Variable 2 or 3, becoming southerly or southwesterly 4 or 5. Slight, occasionally moderate in north. Rain at times. Moderate or good.