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

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