>>>>> "Balu" == qmail-ldap <Thomas> writes:
Ben> Make the user's uid the email address with '@' changed to
Ben> '_'.
Balu> Another nice idea, but if you have _real life_ users you
Balu> should know that many of them would keep asking why @
Balu> doesn't work and what the hell they are supposed to use
Balu> instead of it all day long.
It seems to work fine for our tens of thousands of users at the
company for which I designed a system using this method. It's
certainly better than the old system, where each user had several
accounts with usernames like "me723827" and random passwords.
Many applications just won't allow @ in usernames. Netscape's mail
client is one. Using a _ instead is simple and works great in every
application I've found.
Ben
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