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 -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
