Account Naming Conventions
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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