And don't forget to always use password as your password!
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Drive your web dev nuts and use [object Object] as user name
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Why would I be worried about my username showing up in logs and errors?
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Don't use "user" as your username. Use a personalized one, because it is much easier to identify and obviously it is a requirement in a multi user context.
If you share your logs pseudonymize them, but pick anything other than "user", because it makes it confusing especially when dealing with pam, ssh etc.
Overall not great advise.
Uh, but if you were to post a logfile or whatever online you'd anyways sanitize it before posting, right?
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I don't think this is as much of an issue as people think it is, unless you're going to be sharing your logs with others it's not really going to be much of an issue, especially if it's not your real name. You might be thinking of some app or malicious program looking through them, instead you should be thinking of the real danger of an app or program opening and looking through Personal files on your computer, that's where the real juicy stuff is.
Or not...
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