[BBLISA] Enterprise user account naming standards?

[Eddy Harvey]

Is there a reason you need 8 chars or less?

Any convention you use based on firstname & lastname will not scale well,
because there are so many john smiths.  Jack smith, jane smith, john smitty,
etc etc.  Jessica simpson.  Everybody is J.S.

At Tufts, I personally had a little trouble because there was a Edwin (Ted)
Harvey, Edward (Ned) Harvey (that's me), and Edward (Ted) Harvie.  And
*that* is just in my graduating class, a student body of 1200.

I would encourage, if possible, to allow the users to select their own
username, because they all have been busy creating accounts on AIM, MSN,
yahoo, newegg, bestbuy, etc etc, and they have already all chosen usernames
they can remember, which are unique among a huge body of usernames.

The important thing to enforce is password complexity.  Not username
convention.

Besides, you're going to need unique email accounts, and you must already
have a company directory, such as MS Exchange or whatever, that will allow
you to look up any email address by firstname & lastname.





-----Original Message-----
From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On Behalf
Of Bruce Davis
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 4:59 PM
To: bblisa at bblisa.org
Subject: [BBLISA] Enterprise user account naming standards?

The company I work for has grown from 350 users to over 2100 in just over 3
years.  We have acquired several companies with different user account
naming standards.  We now have the opportunity to standardize our Windows
Active Directory and UNIX (LDAP through Sun Directory
Services) user account names.

1)  We would like to standardize account names to 8 characters or less in
both UNIX and Windows.
2)  We will use the Sun Active Directory connector to synchronize user
accounts and passwords.
3)  Both Windows and UNIX user account names should be the same.

My questions to all of you:  What user account naming standard do you use?
How do you make sure each user name is unique?  How well does your user
account naming standard scale?  If you had to change user account names to a
new standard, how was user acceptance?

Any comments would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Bruce Davis
UNIX Systems Administrator
Medford MA

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