Re: Question on student user accounts

["Jeffrey I. Schiller" <jis () MIT EDU>]

We permit students to choose any eight character user name they wish.
This has led to some interesting usernames over the years. When a
student leaves, their username is "fallow" for a year before being
available to re-use.

                        -Jeff

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 12:05, Matt Kirchhoff wrote:
> Quoth Fretz, Kerry on 6/21/2005 7:37 AM:
> > I was just curious what you are using for the network username format at
> > your institution and what you’ve found that works well for you.  Do you
> > reuse network accounts or do you have a unique username for each student
> > coming in?
>
> Our system allows a new user to choose from eight or so permutations of
> their name (mek, mkirchho, kirchhoffm, etc.). Users seem to like the
> choice, and it helps avoid collisions.
>
> If the student is inactive for two terms, the account is disabled. If it
> is disabled for two subsequent terms, the account is deleted and freed
> for future use.
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