[Freeipa-devel] UID and email address suggestion algorithms

[Kevin McCarthy]

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?

-Kevin

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