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#15748 6-Sep-2007 11:40

OK a question for those that work in IT or even just have a user name at their place of work....

Does your company (don't want to know what company it is) use "friendly" user names or a code? I consider anything that includes all or parts of your name to be friendly and anything that is generic ie user W3245 to be a code.

If you use a code for the user name do you know why and what is the feeling about it?

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#85587 6-Sep-2007 11:52

username: as people are more related to their username. And separate alias for externally accessible email address.

I had experience with code-format when in university, it is great to keep anonymity, but not greatly easy for user to remember.

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#85622 6-Sep-2007 15:04

I guess that some of it comes down to number of people and turn over of staff as well. In my current organisation is is a username (family name + first letter(s) of first name).

In a previous organisation we deliberately implemented a code, mainly as the practice is considered more secure, i.e. to get a password reset you needed to know the users login ID and the name which were not related. It was also deemed a sensible thing to do as there were approx 4,200 employees and a staff turn over of 10% per annum. Prior to the change over we put a lot of effort into single sign-on and/or the aligning of systems to the same username (yes - there is a major difference in approach around this). As the users then only had to remember 1 username we had a relatively minor number of complaints or help desk calls resulting from users not remembering the login ID.

The upshot - a code is not bad, but requires a lot of planning and potential system changes.

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#85642 6-Sep-2007 17:23

Most have usernames,

The first 4 letters of a business division then the initsurname was an idea I came up with.

VOSDJHARRIS for say Vodafone special deals jason harris (totally made up)

Some have complicatedly long email addresses (reallylongfirstname.stupidsecondname@reallybadcompanynamewhichcouldbetruncatedtoacronym.co.nz)
to login to everything which are just plain annoying to staff.

The other gripe is the whole "password changing every 30 days and last password cannot contain same letters as last 5 etc etc" thing, I choose stupid passwords with 2 incremeting numbers when this is forced on me as it's such a pain.

Otherwise if the rules are relaxed slightly, I can choose a good strong password which is long and hard for anyone to watch.

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#85669 6-Sep-2007 20:38

paradoxsm: The other gripe is the whole "password changing every 30 days and last password cannot contain same letters as last 5 etc etc" thing, I choose stupid passwords with 2 incremeting numbers when this is forced on me as it's such a pain.

The every changing password.... When I started in my current role one of the people left. He had been there for 14 months and knew this as he started with the password "password" and when he left his password was "password13". Resonably funny story but I imagine there are others around you do this sort of thing.

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#85672 6-Sep-2007 21:55

At my work we use the next available four digit number ie. 3866 for the POS.

I am unsure what the bigwigs in head office use?

I know another company uses first name followed by last initial ie, rossc@url.co.nz

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#85674 6-Sep-2007 22:12

3866 yikes! mine was 0738 back in the day

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#85725 7-Sep-2007 11:34

hmm our company has 10000+ employees world wide and has started using one letter and then 5 didgets ie N32124.

Users and IS staff hate it but I guess it is a necessary evil... Glad I got my user id before it came in though

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#85727 7-Sep-2007 11:46

I worked for a company with 50,000 employees worldwide and we used last name plus first name initials. No problems with conflicts...

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#85729 7-Sep-2007 11:50

Did it my chance cover asia? That brings in a whole new ball game....

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#85736 7-Sep-2007 12:35

When I was in Newcastle (Australia) I worked with an organisation that had 2 other people with the same family name and first name. It made life interesting as I was managing an IT installation, one was a plumber and the the third a community based case worker. I had some interesting requests coming through to my project from time to time.

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#87566 21-Sep-2007 15:32

I've had both numbers with meanings (D06640 - developer as opposed to O06640 - operators) - to our current - code ones - gzc24k (the only thing consistant is the "z" - and not for NZ)

You do learn the code ones, but try explaining them to your (foreign speaking) helpdesk!!!

I've worked with companies that distinguish male and female in their user ids and others with their names..

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