Isn't that NEAT! -- Changing the default format of a user's login name for NEAT
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By Daniel Shelley
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Posted: 12 Sep 2000 |
Someone once asked if NEAT (Novell Easy Administration Tool) had the ability to utilize different formats when creating the login name. It is undocumented, but in NSBS 5.1 you can. For example, when creating a user in NEAT, you will be asked for the user's first and last names to generate the login name and default home directory. By default NEAT will create the login name from the user's first name and last initial.
After you run NEAT for the first time it will create a file, Sys:\Public\NEAT32.ini, to store some of its preferences. If you open the file it will look like this.
[QuickTasks]
NoShow=0
[User Login Name Creation]
Put first name before last name=1
Use initial of first name=0
Use initial of last name=1
You can modify the values to change how NEAT will create a user's login name. Remember that 1=true and 0=false. For example, changing the NEAT32.ini file to the following would produce a login name made of the user's last name and the initial of their given name.
[QuickTasks]
NoShow=0
[User Login Name Creation]
Put first name before last name=0
Use initial of first name=1
Use initial of last name=0
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