On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Brian Stinson <bstinson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I could be convinced that generalizing to 'username' might be lessOn 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".
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
Thank you for your contribution to the discussion. I'm glad you appear to understand this was not directed at you personally.
I'm a retired System Administrator. Part of my job was being a professional paranoid about user credentials. At most of the companies where I worked, loss or sharing of the company phone book was a firing offense. I imagine that is the source of our difference of opinion.
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