login name not friendly or recognizable

[Brien Dieterle]

How do you all deal with environments where your Login Name is not 
"Friendly", such as "ABC013251"?   We are moving from using "lastname" 
(generally) to this pseudo random ID.  Naturally, people do not like 
this appearing in the Last Modified By, Submitted By, Assigned To, and 
other fields that need Login Names.  There are enough fields and enough 
forms that I'd really like to avoid adding extra fields to store/display 
this information all over the place.  Do you Listers have any 
recommendations or best practices for this situation?  I was considering 
a shared button/workflow that pops up a search tool to let users paste 
in an ID and return the details including Full Name, etc.  A directory 
lookup, basically.  Any better ideas out there?

Thanks!
Brien

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