Does anyone know why we have this restriction? Can we change it?

Am 08.08.2016 um 17:31 schrieb Tiago Antao:
> Sorry, that was what I meant and explained myself poorly.
> 
> This is actually a very serious problem if one wants to integrate Galaxy
> in an existing SSO environment based on LDAP.
> 
> Tiago
> 
> On 2016-08-08 09:28, Nicola Soranzo wrote:
>> Actually it's Galaxy (not the LDAP integration) that doesn't allow
>> underscores in usernames, in fact if you try to register a new user on
>> e.g. usegalaxy.org and the username has an underscore, you'll get this
>> error:
>>
>> Public name must contain only lowercase letters, numbers and "-". It
>> also has to be shorter than 255 characters but longer than 2.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nicola
>>
>> On 08/08/16 16:08, Tiago Antao wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> A serious problem that I have found with Galaxy integration with LDAP
>>> is that it does not allow underscores in the user name, and that is
>>> very common with production LDAP servers.
>>>
>>> On 2016-08-08 09:01, Nicola Soranzo wrote:
>>>> Hi Miuki,
>>>> the file config/auth_conf.xml.sample contains examples and
>>>> documentation of possible values that you have to put in your
>>>> config/auth_conf.xml , unfortunately a lot depends on what LDAP/Active
>>>> Directory server you are using and how it is configured. You may need
>>>> to ask advice to the system administrators of your LDAP server. If you
>>>> have specific questions/problems, feel free to ask here on the mailing
>>>> list and/or on the IRC channel.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Nicola
>>>>
>>>> On 01/08/16 20:45, Yip, Miu ki wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I’m trying to configure a new instance of Galaxy and I want to use
>>>>> LDAP for user authentication. I have taken a look at this wiki
>>>>> page: https://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/Config/ExternalUserAuth
>>>>>
>>>>> I followed the instructions and when I looked into the
>>>>> auth_conf.xml file, I was unsure of what exactly Galaxy is looking
>>>>> for when trying to connect with LDAP. Are there specific options
>>>>> that I must give it? May I ask how Galaxy uses LDAP to authenticate
>>>>> users?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>> Miuki Yip
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