W dniu 11-03-02 09:16, Denis Gervalle wrote: > On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 00:43, Sergiu Dumitriu<[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 03/01/2011 07:28 PM, Kevin P. Foote wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Is there a reason (programmaticly / syntacticaly) why a user can not be >> named as >>> follows: >>> >>> [email protected] >>> >>> When I try to do this through the UI I get returned the message that >>> states usernames can not contain "@" symbol. >>> >>> Is there a system level reason this can not happen? >> >> None that I know of at the moment, but in the past there were some >> limitations. Maybe in a future version we could allow any character in >> the user's name. >> > > Well, the @ is not the main problem here, but the dot is far more > problematic since AFAIK most of the right management code does not currently > work with references and the dot is considered a separator between space and > document names. So, until the point where that legacy code is replaced, > using email address as usernames is impossible. At Softec, we have had a try > with release 2.4, and we have abandoned. > To mitigate that issue, I am currently patching login.vm to replace dots by > underscores, and we have our own registration procedures that accepts @ and > dots in names as well, doing the same replacement. > > Denis
Exactly, for example when using LDAP plugin to create new users, you can use their mail/pass to authenticate but in the end username in xwiki will look like: before (login) : [email protected] after (xwiki): user@aabbcom Piotr _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
