Re: User id format

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

So you could have up to 99 users with the same first character of the first
name and the first 7 characters of the last name?

Charles

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 2:11 PM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Current user id's are limited to 10 characters on IBM i.  You may have an
> opinion on whether or not that should be increased and that's ok but I'm
> currently looking for a shorter term solution I need to implement without
> having to wait for a new release, etc.  So let's just go with the 10
> character limitation for now, ok?
>
> Can you think of any reason why they should be only 8 characters?  Our
> current security policy says:  "The id you create should be the first
> character of the first name and the first 7 characters of the last name".
> There's more details in there to handle stuff like adding Susan Smith and
> Sam Smith.
> But 8 characters instead of 10?  Why?  Would this be because ADDDIRE was
> limited to 8 characters?
>
> We do not use the entries in WRKDIRE for storing email addresses.  We do
> not use QDLS.  In fact, our newest users aren't even in WRKDIRE.
>
> I know that WRKDIRE allows you to point the 8 to a 10 but, since we do not
> use WRKDIRE for anything it's a rather useless piece of trivia.
>
> Any other reasons, other than WRKDIRE, to limit id's down to 8
> characters?  Some obscure open source reason or some such thing?
>
> Rob Berendt
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