On 10/1/07, Ben Stallings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My whishlist for AuthUser: > > > > - Support for spaces in usernames (post 2.2) > > - Support for special characters in usernames (perhaps comes in with > > the switch tu UTF-8 (post 2.2) > > - Some interface to change the password of a user. > > FWIW, the way Dan/Caveman/Editor/Coyote got around the > spaces-in-usernames problem using ZAP authentication (at my suggestion) > was to run the MakePageName function on whatever value is submitted > during registration or login. The reasoning was that since > [[~username]] converts to [[Profiles/Username]], then it makes no sense > for username to be anything other than a valid page name -- anything > else will break the ~ links. > > The beauty is that a user doesn't have to remember the capitalization or > spacing of his or her username, but can log in as > PSMueller > P.S. Mueller > p s mueller or even > pS.mueller > equivalently. So you can actually put a username reminder on the login > form, telling people to "type your first and last names" or whatever the > formulation is. "psmueller", of course, is a different user. > > I highly recommend adopting the same function in AuthUser. --Ben S. > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users >
As soon as Patrick would provide a way to "plug" such a name conversion/filtering function in authuser, I could make it available for HtpasswordForm. -- Dominique _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
