[rhn-users] RHN Account Policies

[Mathew]

Maybe you should repost this so a serious thread can be formed.

Mathew

inode0 wrote:
> Some time ago RHN suddenly and without warning altered its rules for
> account names. Among other things the hyphen was no longer allowed in
> an account name. This disrupted our policies and procedures for
> managing our accounts. Lots of discussion followed, some at least at
> RHN felt they made a mistake doing that and the policy was changed
> back to allow hyphens although it took a very long time for this to
> find its way back into the code base.
> 
> Yesterday it came to my attention while creating an account that RHN
> no longer allows one email address to be associated with more than one
> account on hosted. I am told this is allowed on satellites but that
> isn't relevant to my situation. I have my business email address
> associated with three RHN accounts and I have created multiple RHN
> accounts in the past that share a single email address. So I know this
> hasn't always been the policy or at least it hasn't been enforced in
> the past.
> 
> So one question I have is why RHN chooses to enforce what seems to be
> an arbitrary and useless new rule about email addresses? Another is
> why there aren't announcements about such things made in public so
> those of us who will have business operations disrupted will have a
> chance to prepare ourselves before the disruption occurs?
> 
> We really have more than enough account management headaches already
> without needing to create aliases or mailing lists to use for the
> email address on new accounts.
> 
> John
> 
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