For legacy reasons. A long time ago, having dots in document names was not really working, since a dot separates the document's space and name. Plus the fact that users are just documents in the wiki.
This restriction is no longer relevant, except that there's a lot of code that needs to be revisited to remove this restriction. On 05/11/2014 08:38 PM, mcto...@gmail.com wrote: > Why does this restriction exist? It makes it difficult to map through > to LDAP if we can't map to AD/LDAP username field that contain periods, > such as format of "firstname.lastname" which is quite common. Also, it > is possible to authenticate to xwiki using email address and password > rather than user id and password? -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
