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Account Names

In the past, when ``named accounts'' (as opposed to course accounts) were created, they were done based on the student's initials. So, for instance, Phil A. Buster might have had the account pb or pab. Now that everyone is being granted accounts based on name, it's important to make sure that every account has a unique name. The names also have to fall within certain department guidelines, and they need to be easy to refernece/lookup against other identity data. For this reason, each account will use CIS' shortid.

The shortid is based on the student's name. This means that the student can provide their CIS login name (NetID, for example, Phillip_Buster), and this in turn will yield the shortid, provide a mechanism for kerberized communication and validation, etc.

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