<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Brian Stinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bstinson@ksu.edu" target="_blank">bstinson@ksu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>On Dec 23 16:29, PatrickD Garvey wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Karsten Wade <<a href="mailto:kwade@redhat.com" target="_blank">kwade@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > On 12/23/2014 03:56 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:<br>
> > > On Tuesday 23 December 2014, PatrickD Garvey<br>
> > > <<a href="mailto:patrickdgarveyt@gmail.com" target="_blank">patrickdgarveyt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > ><br>
> > >> In<br>
> > >> <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-42b3d8e26400a106851a61aebe5c2c" target="_blank">http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-42b3d8e26400a106851a61aebe5c2c</a><br>
> > >><br>
> > >><br>
> > ca54dd79e5 the standard for the wiki username is established as<br>
> > >> FirstnameLastname.<br>
> > >><br>
> > >> In <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Centpkg" target="_blank">http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Centpkg</a>, created and edited by<br>
> > >> BrianStinson, the Community Build System username is shown as<br>
> > >> bstinson<br>
> > ><br>
> > > If I understand your question correctly, your name as a wiki<br>
> > > *author* is FirstnameLastname.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > When giving examples of commands, output, etc., you can use<br>
> > > whatever you want. Sometimes you have to use the user "root" in an<br>
> > > example.<br>
> ><br>
> > In other words, one can choose whatever username is preferred for<br>
> > community systems such as <a href="http://git.centos.org" target="_blank">git.centos.org</a> and <a href="http://cbs.centos.org" target="_blank">cbs.centos.org</a> -- for<br>
> > example, my commmunity username is always 'quaid' (when I can obtain<br>
> > it.) But the wiki stands alone in requesting that document authors use<br>
> > a "real name", i.e., FirstnameLastname of the autheor. E.g., my<br>
> > username on <a href="http://wiki.centos.org" target="_blank">wiki.centos.org</a> is KarstenWade. The same is true for all<br>
> > other project members that I have seen.<br>
> ><br>
> > FWIW, I don't follow this practice in other locations. For example, on<br>
> > the Fedora Wiki I am 'Quaid' and on Wikipedia I am 'iquaid', the<br>
> > latter being my preference when straight 'quaid' is not available to me.<br>
> ><br>
> > The FirstnameLastname preference for the CentOS wiki is a bit of<br>
> > legacy, and makes sense to follow simply for that reason unless there<br>
> > is a better reason to change it.<br>
> ><br>
> > Regards,<br>
> ><br>
> > - Karsten<br>
><br>
><br>
> I'm not referring to the username used by a particular person while using a<br>
> CentOS community resource. I'm trying to understand if the document example<br>
> should use an actual person's username (a security risk increase. That's<br>
> half that person's credentials.) or a pattern that refers to no one, such<br>
> as "username".<br>
<br>
</div></div>I could be convinced that generalizing to 'username' might be less<br>
confusing (although my opinion is the opposite, I find real-world<br>
examples to be more illustrative). In that particular case the important<br>
distinction is between the UNIX superuser account and a normal user<br>
account (that happens to be configured with my cbs credentials). If<br>
there's a way to make that more clear, I'm happy to update.<br>
<br>
I don't, however, buy the "security risk" argument simply because it's<br>
an open buildsystem, user IDs are already public in many more ways than<br>
in the documentation.<br>
<br>
Cheers!<br>
<span><font color="#888888">Brian</font></span><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you for your contribution to the discussion. I'm glad you appear to understand this was not directed at you personally. <br><br></div><div>I'm a retired System Administrator. Part of my job was being a professional paranoid about user credentials. At most of the companies where I worked, loss or sharing of the company phone book was a firing offense. I imagine that is the source of our difference of opinion.<br></div></div></div></div>