On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Peter Kjellerstedt <
[email protected]> wrote:

> You might want to consider making this configurable, given that you cannot
> influence what user names are already in use in, e.g., an existing LDAP
> directory. E.g., I seriously doubt that our user who has a two letter user
> name would consider changing it because of Gitorious given that he has had
> it for almost 30 years… Changing Gitorious was a lot easier. ;)
>

:-)

Side note: we're going to have to make some changes to how usernames are
validated when using an external authentication provider (like LDAP)
anyway. We currently substitute any dots in usernames with a dash, but the
problem here is that this is a lossy process. We have seen LDAP directories
which use both dashes and dots. One thing to do could be to be more liberal
when using external authentication systems; do any of you have any thoughts
on this - eg. what kind of real-world use cases we will need in this regard?

Cheers,
- Marius

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