topic Re: Maximum Username Length for Random Guest Accounts in Network Access Control

Maximum Username Length for Random Guest Accounts

Charlie Moreton — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 12:45:15 GMT

I was showing a demo of generating Random Guest Accounts today and in my head I said, “wow, that’s a long username”. As soon as I did, the customer(s) complained about the length of the username, too.

I was using a prefix, but a randomly generated 15 character username is quite long.

Is there a way for me to ask for an enhancement request without a TAC Case?

It seems it might be possible to add this option under the Characters Allowed in Randomly-Generated Usernames from the screenshot below and would make a lot of sense.

If I am missing something and this is possible today, please let me know.

Re: Maximum Username Length for Random Guest Accounts

howon — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:55:20 GMT

You need to reduce the 'Minimum alphanumeric' to 5 or less in the guest username policy settings and should work as expected.

Re: Maximum Username Length for Random Guest Accounts

Charlie Moreton — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:58:47 GMT

It is currently set to 5 as show in the screen grab above. I don't understand how setting the minimum length to 5 or less will shorten the maximum length.

Re: Maximum Username Length for Random Guest Accounts

howon — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:17:47 GMT

Charles, I am talking about 'Minimum alphanumeric' not 'Minimum Username length' field. Two are in conflict. You just need to make sure 'Minimum alphanumeric' is lower than 'Minimum Username length'.

Re: Maximum Username Length for Random Guest Accounts

Charlie Moreton — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:44:16 GMT

Perfect. This helps out a lot. Basically whatever value you have in the Minimum username length:* is appended to the end of the username Prefix set in the Sponsor Portal. What this means is:

Combined with this

Gives you this:

Which is a LOT more manageable. 3 characters added to the end of the Prefix is PERFECT.

Thank you for the guidance, Hosuk.

Charles Moreton