13 Nov
2010
13 Nov
'10
1:25 p.m.
Hello,
are there any best practices for the length of user names?
I tend to limit them to 8 characters and to follow the pattern 'first letter of the first name'+'first 7 letters of the last name' (e.g. mbaudier).
But people are sometimes frustrated with having their last name truncated and I wonder if limiting the user name to 8 characters is not a kind of superstition coming from some old times...
I would be very interested to hear opinions / experience about this. (I'm using CentOS 5.5)
Thanks in advance!
Mathieu