[Freeipa-devel] UID and email address suggestion algorithms

[Rob Crittenden]

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?

rob
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