[BlueOnyx:07516] Re: Site Prefix & Underscore

[Hans Draaisma - Netvictory B.V.]

Ah, sorry. I totally missed the point that Steven was making. On second look his examples showed what was gonna happen it there was NO separator. (My native language isn't English, maybe that's why.)

But still users are complaining about the underscore in their usernames.

"There had to be some kind of a separator between prefix and username"  -> I see this kinda different. Because the check if a username is already taken is done on the combined prefix&username there will only be a slight/slim change that a username already exists if there was no separator....Just have to choose the prefix wisely. The prefix is there in the first place to rule out the possibility that people will create usernames like administrator, sysadmin, info, email etc. 


Best regards,

Hans Draaisma
Netvictory B.V.

 
On 22 jun 2011, at 02:13, Michael Stauber wrote:

> Hi Hans,
> 
>> One thing I noticed is a bit odd and our users are complaining about is
>> that if a Site Prefix is set, all usernames will be created like
>> prefix_username Anyone can answer why there is a underscore thrown in?
> 
> It's kind of what Steven said. There had to be some kind of a separator 
> bewteen prefix and username. Sensible characters were either a dash, a dot or 
> an underscore. I choose the underscore, as dashes and dots are somewhat more 
> common in usernames than underscores. But even if someone throws in another 
> underscore into the username part itself, it won't cause problems.
> 
> The checks if a username already exists on the system (or if it's available) 
> take the total and combined username (prefix, separator and username) into 
> account to see if the name is available or not.
> 
> -- 
> With best regards
> 
> Michael Stauber
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