I know Elias had proposed adding a config property which is essentially a regex 
that would be used to determine if a username is okay.  then site admins can 
alter that property as desired if they want to.

Personally, I have mixed emotions about the prospect of letting app owners 
alter the username and password restrictions.  I can see that it would be a 
nice feature, but at the same time it really shouldn't be all that necessary as 
long as we pick a good standard.

Anyone know of any open standards for username character restrictions?  Elias 
is correct that we should at least open up the username restrictions to allow 
for '@' and '.' characters so that email addresses are valid.

-- Allen


On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 06:31, Dave Johnson wrote:
> Yes, this is still an open issue in 2.0. It's on my list.
> 
> Do we have a proposed solution?
> 
> - Dave
> 
> 
> On Aug 21, 2005, at 10:25 PM, Elias Torres wrote:
> 
> > BTW, I don't think I have double-checked this, but handle in create
> > weblog form does not seem to restrict any characters (as found in
> > Roller_2.0 branch). Therefore, I guess we need to resolve this so we
> > are not being inconsistent. Sorry for being such a pest on this.
> >
> > Elias
> >
> > On 8/16/05, Lance Lavandowska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Due to Jaap's  
> >> <http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=JaapVanDerMolen>
> >> work  
> >> <http://rollerweblogger.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=InstallationGuide#ref-
> >> InstallationGuide-6>
> >>  "websafe" shouldn't be necessary.  But Anil indicated there were some
> >> issues with Tomcat not supporting non-ISO-8859-1 usernames.
> >>
> >> Lance
> >>
> >> On 8/16/05, Dave Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> What we really need is a algorithm for determining if a username (or  
> >>> in
> >>> 2.0 a webloghandle) is safe to use in a URL. Any pointers?
> >>>
> >>> - Dave
> >>
> >
> 

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