Re: length of the login id

[Yves Dorfsman <dorfsmay@cuug.ab.ca>]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Rayappa Mayakunthala wrote:

> Our local office has recently been taken over by a new company. This new
> company uses 3-char login id for both NT and Unix and our office had been
> using 8-char login id for both NT and Unix. Now the question is whether we
> should migrate to 3-char or not. Though it is lot of work and it is going to
> break various things, this would be forced upon us by the management at some
> point. This new company is 800+ employee strong and our office 300+ employee
> strong and that is making me think towards 3-char as it is easy to change
> few users than lot of users.

For 300 changes, I would try to come with a scheme that is realtively easy
to script, therefore it shouldn't matter if it is 300 or 800.

8 char ids seems to make more sense, but the only valid reason I can come
up with is that it is easier to create something meaningfull out of 8
chars than 3... or it could just be habit (I originally thought 3
alphanumeric would be very limited in the number of possible ids, but 36^3
= 46656, more than enough !!).



Yves.
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