Reply to post: Re: Push back and automate

Sysadmin told to spend 20+ hours changing user names, for no reason

Kiwi
Gimp

Re: Push back and automate

and occasionally our naming convention has given a user a "rude" word in their language!

I remember reading many years ago of a Uni or ISP or something that used 1st 5 letters of surname then first 2 letters of first name, so a lady named "Megan Cummins" became cuminme@...

NSFW Warning : be very careful searching for this! ;)

I can't find the original article on a quick search (was probably last century some time I read it), and the sort of results coming up put me off searching further (see icon).

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