[Mageia-sysadm] Login blacklist on identity

[Anssi Hannula]

On 10.02.2011 16:28, Michael Scherer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> While thinking about setting email alias, I realized that if we are
> gonna offer alias to various people, we should maybe forbid certain
> login to be registered, like press, contact, president so they do not
> clash in the future.
> 
> Is there anything to add on that list :
>  contact   -> already used on the current website
>  press     -> the same
> 
>  president -> could be nice to have
>  secretary -> ditto
>  treasurer -> ditto
> 
> security ? 
> 
> The goal is not to be exhaustive just to prevent stuff that are easy to
> avoid. The goal of the blacklist is not to implement policy for naming
> besides obvious clash. IE, I think we should not add sarkozysux/rox or
> stuff like that, because this is a never ending task.  
> 
> And for obvious reasons I prefer to keep the list as small as possible
> for a start ( and so only for thing when they are in practice used ),
> and later let it grow.

Well, I'm not sure what benefit would such a partial list have?

I mean, don't all email aliases require some approval anyway? So that we
could simply refuse ambigious addresses on a case-by-case basis.

Related thing I wonder is if we should enforce an email alias format
(like firstname.lastname@ or somesuch) or not.

-- 
Anssi Hannula