firstname.lastname and user.group e-mail
I'm sure you all have see people with e-mails of first.last@domain.com Is this easy to do with linux? Is there any confusion with having user.group ? can you login to the box with username= first.last ? Any suggestions? -- Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:32:41AM -0500, Karl Hiramoto wrote:
Is there any confusion with having user.group ?
In Fedora, a push has been made to move all such user.group usage over to user:group, specifically so that . can appear in a user/group name. Eventually, I believe user.group usage will be removed from coreutils.
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 09:37 am, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:32:41AM -0500, Karl Hiramoto wrote:
Is there any confusion with having user.group ?
In Fedora, a push has been made to move all such user.group usage over to user:group, specifically so that . can appear in a user/group name. Eventually, I believe user.group usage will be removed from coreutils.
it's already been removed fedora/mandrake/etc... just apply patches to add it back in ... you might also want to review `head -#`, `tail -#`, and your `seq 5 1` usage ... there are other things too, i just cant remember them -mike
I'm sure you all have see people with e-mails of first.last@domain.com Is this easy to do with linux?
I think think of a few ways... depending on your MTA... why not just setup an alias to first.last@domain.com to karl@hiramoto.org Maybe I'm not understanding your question thorougly ;) Cheers -- Chris Aniszczyk Gentoo Developer - http://www.gentoo.org - http://cia.navi.cx/stats/author/zx http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x274A275F
Yes, aliases work fine. however i was looking for examples of problems of creating a login account of first.last as the username. I tried this several years ago and had some problems. I need to convince a electricical engineer CTO type guy that hardly knows anything about unix systems.
I'm sure you all have see people with e-mails of first.last@domain.com Is this easy to do with linux?
I think think of a few ways... depending on your MTA... why not just setup an alias to first.last@domain.com to karl@hiramoto.org
Maybe I'm not understanding your question thorougly ;)
Cheers
-- Chris Aniszczyk Gentoo Developer - http://www.gentoo.org - http://cia.navi.cx/stats/author/zx http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x274A275F
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-- Karl Hiramoto <karl@hiramoto.org> Work: 978-425-2090 ext 25 Cell: 508-517-4819 Personal web page: http://karl.hiramoto.org/ AOL IM ID = KarlH420 Yahoo_IM = karl_hiramoto
Karl Hiramoto wrote:
I'm sure you all have see people with e-mails of first.last@domain.com
Is this easy to do with linux?
I'm having no problem, just using aliases as Chris suggested.
Is there any confusion with having user.group ?
can you login to the box with username= first.last ?
Perhaps you can, but I find it valuable to have the actual login names and email addresses de-linked. One aspect (admittedly minor and debatable) is security. Login names can't necessarily be determined by email address. It also makes it easier to set up multiple accounts per-user: i.e. one for an "internal" persona, and another for "external" for mailing lists and such to help with spam control. Should an account name get leaked onto spam lists, changing a mail address shouldn't impact the user's login account. Just some thoughts. - Bob
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