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Re: netID lengths
From: "McLaughlin, Bryan S." <bmclaughlin () CREIGHTON EDU>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 18:32:01 +0000
We have an algorithm that creates 8 digit NetIDs for all faculty, staff and students. We use first initial, middle initial, last initials plus 5 randomly assigned numeric digits. If no middle initial we use first two letters of last name. We never reuse NetIDs once they are assigned. Bryan From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Shalla, Kevin Sent: Friday, August 16, 2013 9:33 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: [SECURITY] netID lengths We're in the midst of changing the process for assigning new netIDs, and one consideration is the length of usernames allowed in various systems. We've currently got a maximum length of 8, and given that our plan is to never reuse netIDs, that maximum causes challenges to maintaining uniqueness and having reasonable netIDs without embedded numerals. We're considering increasing that to 24 characters. What maximum length do you have for netIDs? What is the maximum username length supported in most systems? Some cursory web searches gave me these numbers: Windows 256 Linux 32 Oracle 30 MySQL 16 SQL Server 128 Kevin Shalla Academic and Enrollment Services University of Illinois at Chicago
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- netID lengths Shalla, Kevin (Aug 16)
- Re: netID lengths Bristol, Gary L. (Aug 16)
- Re: netID lengths Dr. Wole Akpose (Aug 16)
- Re: netID lengths Pete Hickey (Aug 16)
- Re: netID lengths Dr. Wole Akpose (Aug 16)
- Re: netID lengths Roger A Safian (Aug 16)
- Re: netID lengths Ken Connelly (Aug 16)
- Re: netID lengths Semmens, Theresa (Aug 16)
- Re: netID lengths Charlie Derr (Aug 16)
- Re: netID lengths McLaughlin, Bryan S. (Aug 21)
- Re: netID lengths Bristol, Gary L. (Aug 16)