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<h2 align=center>The arch Global Name-space of Users</h2>
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<b>up: </b><a href="arch.html#arch">arch</a></br>
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</p><p>For various purposes (such as labelling the author of log messages),
<code>arch</code>
maintains a global name-space of users. Every user of <code>arch</code>
has an associated user ID, which is (ideally) globally unique.
</p><p>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:
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Joe Hacker <joe.hacker@gnu.org>
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free form part unique id
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<p>The free-form part must match the regexp:
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[[:alnum:][:space:][:punct:]]*
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<p>and the unique-id part must match the regexp:
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<[-.[:alnum:]]+@[-.[:alnum:]]+\\.[-.[:alnum:]]+>
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<p>You should only need to set your ID once, which you can do with the
command:
</p><pre>
% larch my-id ID-STRING
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<p>You can check your id with:
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% larch my-id
Joe Hacker <joe.hacker@gnu.org>
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<p>or:
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% larch my-id --uid
joe.hacker@gnu.org
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<p>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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<small><i>arch: The arch Revision Control System
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