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For various purposes (such as labelling the author of log messages),
ArX
maintains a global name-space of users. Every user of ArX
has an associated user ID, which is (ideally) globally unique.
An id string has two parts: a free-form part, and a unique-id part. The unique-id part is an email address with a fully-qualified domain name. That part of your id string should be unique to you in the world. Here is an example:
Joe Hacker <joe.hacker@gnu.org> ^ ^ | | free form part unique id |
The free-form part must match the regexp:
[[:alnum:][:space:][:punct:]]* |
and the unique-id part must match the regexp:
<[-.[:alnum:]]+@[-.[:alnum:]]+\\.[-.[:alnum:]]+> |
You should only need to set your ID once, which you can do with the command:
% arx my-id ID-STRING |
You can check your id with:
% arx my-id Joe Hacker <joe.hacker@gnu.org> |
or:
% arx my-id --uid joe.hacker@gnu.org |
Clearly it is a good idea to use a real email address (belonging to you) for the id string, but there is nothing that requires this.
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