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From: djfiander@watnot.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Unix userid conventions
Message-ID: <12571@watnot.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Mar-87 19:50:36 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  7 19:50:36 1987
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Reply-To: djfiander@watnot.UUCP (David Fiander)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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This is not exactly a Unix userid convention, but it does say something
about security and userids:

A _long, long_ time ago I worked for a certain large computer company
(nudge, nudge) in a research facility that they operate in Toronto.
They were so security conscious that I had to use a mag-strip card to get
from my office to the cafeteria, however my userid, and those of everybody
elses on the system, was my last name and my initials (up to a limit of
eight characters, of course).

I don't see how having cryptic userids does anything but make it difficult
to communicate through the obvious medium of electronic mail.

-- 
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work.
I want to achieve immortality through not dying"
	- Woody Allen

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