#5786: Relax character restrictions on auth usernames
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Reporter: Armin Ronacher | Owner: nobody
Status: new | Milestone:
Component: Authentication | Version: 1.1
Resolution: | Keywords: username,
character, restriction
Stage: Design decision needed | Has_patch: 1
Needs_docs: 0 | Needs_tests: 0
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Comment (by bronger):
Please change the character restrictions to the best common practice. It
is highly unusual to forbid dash or dot in login names. Moreover, email
addresses as logins are very common.
It is not about satisfying all; that's never the case for default values.
Instead, it's about satisfying ''almost'' all. Given that almost all
logins that I know allow more characters, I see no real use case for the
very limited set being the default. From this it also follows that only
very few Django installation are expected to break due to relaxed
restrictions.
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