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