On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 9:43:30 AM UTC-8, Robert wrote: > > I searched for this topic but couldn't find the answer I was looking for. > If there is an existing topic that addresses my question I would be fine > with a pointer to that topic. What I would like to do is drop use of the > username in lieu of the email address. It seems like the username is so > pervasive throughout Trac that this would be a massive undertaking. Is > there a simple way of doing this that I am missing? >
Are you concerned with renaming existing usernames to replace the userid with an email address? AccountManagerPlugin 0.5dev has a component for account renaming which might be useful to you. > One kind of inelegant solution I thought might work is to use the email > address as the username. I know the default naming conventions don't allow > an email address as a username but I assume relaxing the naming convention > would not be too difficult. Could this work? Could this work without > having to make changes throughout the source code? > I'm not aware of any limitation that prevents using an email address as a username. Which authentication store are you using? - Ryan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/trac-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
