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I quote:
A username is a unique name for each user. User names are usually based on a short string of alphanumeric characters. Depending on the policies of the particular service, the name may be chosen by the user or assigned by a system administrator.
So is it "username" or "user name" (note the space)? If "username," then it should read, "A username is a unique name for each user. Usernames are usuall..." That is, the term should be consistently used.
--Lenehey 20:22, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
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Иσт яєρℓу afzal 09:48, 17 March 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Afzal Mahajir (talk • contribs)
If you would write article Mult account (or if there is such an article under another name) plz mention about it on a page Мульт by iwiki. Thanks! Carn 17:04, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
Screen name (computing) = Username. ね?.--ZayZayEM 06:05, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
Is there a command to see a list all existing user accounts, without having to look at /etc/passwd or the contents of /home ?
Well, maybe not:
File: coreutils.info, Node: User information, Next: System context, Prev: Working context, Up: Top 20 User information ******************* This section describes commands that print user-related information: logins, groups, and so forth. * Menu: * id invocation:: Print user identity. * logname invocation:: Print current login name. * whoami invocation:: Print effective user ID. * groups invocation:: Print group names a user is in. * users invocation:: Print login names of users currently logged in. * who invocation:: Print who is currently logged in. -----Info: (coreutils.info)User information, 18 lines --All
Thanks in advance, --Jerome Potts (talk) 01:11, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
Why does cybernaut redirect here? 86.140.69.123 (talk) 18:23, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
I think we should add nom d'écran (French for "screen name") to the list, as it is sometimes used in English newspapers in Europe. Any thoughts? --Thorwald (talk) 20:38, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
The topic of GUEST account in the IT industry needs to be discussed thoroughly, based on the fact of
https://portfolio.umn.edu/guestLogin.jsp;jsessionid=97C4C654F7682F18EC80DE06BD42CAC0
https://mondo.su.se/portal/help/html/content.hlp?docId=guestlogin
--222.64.221.91 (talk) 03:48, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
and
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=allintitle%3A+Guest+account&btnG=Search --222.64.221.91 (talk) 03:50, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
http://www.homeshop.com.au/website/home.jsp
https://www.colesonline.com.au/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CMLForwardViewCmd?storeId=10052&catalogId=10001&viewName=HomePageDisplay —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.64.221.91 (talk) 04:00, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=%22operating+system%22+%22guest+account%22&as_ylo=2008&as_yhi=2009&btnG=Search --222.64.221.91 (talk) 04:04, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=service+%22guest+account%22&as_ylo=2008&as_yhi=2009&btnG=Search --222.64.221.91 (talk) 04:06, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&q=software+trial+%22guest+account%22&as_ylo=2006&as_yhi=2009&btnG=Search --222.64.221.91 (talk) 04:08, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks to User:Diego Moya for finishing up the merge of End-user (computer science) into this article. I went through and clarified some of the text and incorporated a lot of excessive see also links into the body. I am now done messing with how it was and I think the article is ready to be expanded further. We do need to check other related articles (like UML and software engineering concepts, access control schema, operating system architectures, etc) and make sure we are not duplicating content but only mentioning how it is related to an abstract user or a concrete end user and letting the links do the rest. References can also be improved greatly here. –Paul M. Nguyen (chat|blame) 15:38, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
In the intro there's the line:
I've never witnessed this before, especially the term "power users" being degrading. I know anecdotal data isn't evidence, but that statement also has no evidence to back it up. I vote for it to be removed.
Also, the power users category is probably used much more often outside hacker-related contexts, and in that case it's not degrading at all. For example, power users are often used as a user group in design or marketing.Dideler (talk) 22:43, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
192.168.0.1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.139.111.23 (talk) 01:21, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
Shouldn't "end user" be written without a hyphen, like End user? -- ChristopheS (talk) 13:45, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
I suggest that fake user accounts be covered by this article as well (or maybe on a separate article). Couldn't find anything on this subject in this Wikipedia, even though there are articles on the subject in other wikis (Italian, Portuguese etc.) —capmo (talk) 19:55, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Ok Ayut patil (talk) 17:32, 17 March 2019 (UTC)
who do I talk to about changing my username? AaronSand4605 (talk) 12:05, 6 July 2018 (UTC)
This article could use a history section. I just came to this article to find out when the idea of a user "account" was first invented in a computer operating system. This information seems to be missing. My guess is, that it came around with maybe the IBM System 360? This may also involve Multi-user software and History of IBM mainframe operating systems. --Lasse Hillerøe Petersen (talk) 03:29, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
The article seems to be inconsistent: "A user is a person who utilizes a computer or network service." This statement excludes machine accounts to be users. And this is how the English language defines user. But then: "Some software products provide services to other systems and have no direct end users." Then the term end user is defined to distinguish between users and end users. But users are defined being the persons and no machines, so how do they distinguish between end users?
Furthermore, if a computer has a purpose, the users fulfilling the purpose could be seen as end users, the admins that ensure the computer is working are not "end users" as they are only ensuring the purpose can be achieved - so not clear the term "end user" makes much sense in here.
Or am I wrong? 195.212.20.242 (talk) 10:27, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
Username formats says that there are "Down-Level Logon Name format". Really? Shouldn't that be "Domain-Level Logon Name format"? User:Haraldmmueller 12:45, 23 February 2024 (UTC)