On Dec 23 16:29, PatrickD Garvey wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Karsten Wade <kwade@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 12/23/2014 03:56 PM, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > > > On Tuesday 23 December 2014, PatrickD Garvey > > > <patrickdgarveyt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >> In > > >> http://wiki.centos.org/Contribute#head-42b3d8e26400a106851a61aebe5c2c > > >> > > >> > > ca54dd79e5 the standard for the wiki username is established as > > >> FirstnameLastname. > > >> > > >> In http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Centpkg, created and edited by > > >> BrianStinson, the Community Build System username is shown as > > >> bstinson > > > > > > If I understand your question correctly, your name as a wiki > > > *author* is FirstnameLastname. > > > > > > When giving examples of commands, output, etc., you can use > > > whatever you want. Sometimes you have to use the user "root" in an > > > example. > > > > In other words, one can choose whatever username is preferred for > > community systems such as git.centos.org and cbs.centos.org -- for > > example, my commmunity username is always 'quaid' (when I can obtain > > it.) But the wiki stands alone in requesting that document authors use > > a "real name", i.e., FirstnameLastname of the autheor. E.g., my > > username on wiki.centos.org is KarstenWade. The same is true for all > > other project members that I have seen. > > > > FWIW, I don't follow this practice in other locations. For example, on > > the Fedora Wiki I am 'Quaid' and on Wikipedia I am 'iquaid', the > > latter being my preference when straight 'quaid' is not available to me. > > > > The FirstnameLastname preference for the CentOS wiki is a bit of > > legacy, and makes sense to follow simply for that reason unless there > > is a better reason to change it. > > > > Regards, > > > > - Karsten > > > I'm not referring to the username used by a particular person while using a > CentOS community resource. I'm trying to understand if the document example > should use an actual person's username (a security risk increase. That's > half that person's credentials.) or a pattern that refers to no one, such > as "username". I could be convinced that generalizing to 'username' might be less confusing (although my opinion is the opposite, I find real-world examples to be more illustrative). In that particular case the important distinction is between the UNIX superuser account and a normal user account (that happens to be configured with my cbs credentials). If there's a way to make that more clear, I'm happy to update. I don't, however, buy the "security risk" argument simply because it's an open buildsystem, user IDs are already public in many more ways than in the documentation. Cheers! Brian _______________________________________________ CentOS-docs mailing list CentOS-docs@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-docs
