Then again, you can't assume an email to not have spaces as "John Doe"@example.com is a valid email per the RFC.
If you *really* need flexibility, have a UserProfile model with a OneToOne relation to User and your imagination will be the only limit. Cheers, AT On 10/26/11, Kurtis Mullins <kurtis.mull...@gmail.com> wrote: > Check out userena as well. But a custom authentication back-end was the > approach I originally took. And to answer your question, yes -- your chances > of finding people w/ email addresses longer than 75 chars are less than > finding people w/ 30 chars -- but still a limitation none-the-less as there > is no limitation on how long an email address can be. > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Joakim Hove <joakim.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> OK; >> >> thanks I was afraid it was not entirely straightforward. >> >> On Oct 26, 10:52 pm, Donald Stufft <donald.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > This is a known limitation and it's something that people _want_ to get >> fixed (but just merely increasing the length isn't helpful, because soon >> someone comes along with the new length + 1 and the same problem occurs). >> >> Now - of course the problem can easily crop up again by just >> increasing length; but if the username length and the email length at >> least default to the same value (the email field has length 75) the >> failure will at least be simultaneous - and the usage pattern I >> describe will work until the 75 characters e-mail limit is reached. So >> although by no means a full solution, increasing the username length >> to 75 would in my opinion be a very simple fix with some benefit? >> >> Joakim >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- Sent from my mobile device -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
