User Account Naming Convention
Draft 6/3/2002
Strategy Purpose:Provide a consistent username naming convention that is scaleable for students, faculty, and staff as well as potential visitors, parents, alums or any other role that is created based on a relationship with Plymouth using the myPlymouth portal.
Strategy Authority: SMART Executive Steering Committee
Background:Over the years naming conventions have varied not only over time but also from system to system. When there were relatively few users on the central systems and the Internet was in the hands of Department of Defense and a few research institutions, a simply first name, nickname, or combination of initials, could be used with little risk of confusion or duplication. With the migration to web-based systems and convergence of multiple account authentications within single sign-on portal technology, the need to identify a new standard naming convention to be used by all new users and remain with them throughout their relationship with Plymouth, regardless of what the relationship is or will be is necessary. Importantly, this naming convention must accommodate potentially hundreds of thousand users and potentially a self-created myPlymouth account option.
Strategy:
- Grandfather existing email usernames (username@mail.plymouth.edu) as myPlymouth (campus pipeline portal ) authentication username.
- New user name is a combination of: First Initial, Middle Initial and whole last name. For example, John James Doe would be: jjdoe
- The first duplicate of a username would have a number appended. For example, John Jack Doe would be: jjdoe1
- Usernames can be up to 16 characters. Last names are truncated in order to fit 16 character limit.
- Initial passwords are: First Initial, Last Initial and the first six characters of SSN with leading zeros. For example, John James Doe would be: jd012345
- The E-mail policy addendum to the PSU Appropriate Use of Computing policy applies.
End of strategy
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