Re: User ID composition

["Anthony Ettinger" <aettinger () sdsualumni org>]

I've seen email used a lot for login. If the email is no longer valid,
it may become unusable, plus, email is often published on the web, it
would be like publishing your bank account username on the web.

Depends on the app, but I don't recommend using the username as an
identifier, except for logins. ie - api usage, etc. should be a unique
key.



On 3/22/06, jaboltz () bu edu <jaboltz () bu edu> wrote:
> Are there any standards around User ID composition?  For instance, the ID should
> not indicate Admin, super user, etc, be hard to enumerate valid IDs?
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