[Freeipa-devel] UID and email address suggestion algorithms

[Kevin McCarthy]

Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Kevin McCarthy wrote:
>> This code was committed previously, but deserves some discussion before
>> it sees the light of day.  Right now the code is in controllers.py:
>> suggest_uid and suggest_email.
>> The uid tries in the following order:
>> - givenname[0] + sn[:7]
>> - givenname[:7] + sn[0]
>> - (givenname + sn)[:8]
>> - sn[:8]
>> - lastly, it appends an incrementing counter to givenname[0] + sn[:7]
>> For the email address, the code isn't activated yet, but I suggest
>> trying:
>> - "%s.%s@%s" % (givenname, sn, domain)
>> - the result of suggest_uid() @domain
>> Comments?  Do you think the ordering is good?
>
> Should it enforce a minimum uid length?

Don't know.  I know we need to support many different systems, so I
thought "lowest common denominator" would be 8 chars.  I'm reluctant to
increase this unless someone confirms it's okay.

-Kevin

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