Account Naming Conventions

This is the naming convention to be adopted for new accounts across Free Geek internal services, approved by the Technocrats Committee on 28 Jan 2012.


 * For unix accounts:
 * firstname + lastname, up to 12 characters long
 * e.g., johndoe, thomasjeffer
 * for namespace collisions, first and middle initial and last name
 * The fallback scheme would also be limited to 12 characters.
 * e.g., jhdoe, twjefferson


 * For e-mail addresses:
 * firstname.lastname@freegeek.org
 * e.g., john.doe@freegeek.org, thomas.jefferson@freegeek.org
 * unixaccount@freegeek.org will be an alias to firstname.lastname@freegeek.org.
 * e.g., johndoe@freegeek.org, thomasjeffers@freegeek.org, jhdoe@freegeek.org, twjefferson@freegeek.org


 * For wiki, RT, FGDB
 * unix account