User identifier management

摘要

The different illustrative embodiments provide a computer program product and apparatus for managing user identifiers presented in accordance with an illustrative embodiment. In an illustrative embodiment, a determination is made whether the new user identifier matches an existing user identifier according to a policy for a minimum degree of character variation between the new user identifier and the existing user identifier responsive to receiving a request to store a new user identifier. The request to store the new user identifier is rejected responsive to a determination that the new user identifier matches the existing user identifier according to the policy. The request is approved responsive to an absence of a determination that the new user identifier matches the existing user identifier according to the policy.

主权项

1. A computer program product comprising:
a computer readable storage device; computer readable program code, stored on the computer readable storage device, for determining whether a first number of characters in a first user identifier contains a number of variants of a second number of characters in a second user identifier in a data source using a policy responsive to receiving a request to store the first user identifier in the data source containing a plurality of user identifiers; computer readable program code, stored on the computer readable storage device, for rejecting the first user identifier responsive to a determination that the first number of characters in the first user identifier contains the number of variants of the second number of characters in the second user identifier in the data source using the policy; and computer readable program code, stored on the computer readable storage device, for storing the first user identifier in the plurality of user identifiers responsive to an absence of a determination that the first number of characters in the first user identifier contains the number of variants of the second number of characters in the second user identifier in the data source using the policy.