[OpenAFS] One of my users has married - what to do?

[Steve Brown]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, david l goodrich wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 11:32:50AM -0400, Coy Hile wrote:
> > On 4/27/07, Christopher D. Clausen <cclausen@acm.org> wrote:
> > >> On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > >>> what do I have to do to rename a user.
> >
> > Interesting idea, but it does beg the question why rename the username
> > at all?  Update the GECOS and perhaps mail aliases, but why change the
> > principal?
>
> Because when Mary Jones marries John Doe, 'mjones' makes a lot
> less sense than 'mdoe' as a principal.
>   --david

Sounds like a great argument for meaningless user/principal names --
unfortunately, folks don't like the idea of being NQ37821.

Steve Brown
sbrown7@umbc.edu