I've got my site's authentication working with and email and password
only--no username (thanks to Shawn Milochik for helping me with that).
However, I still need to put in a username to make the User model happy. I
was hoping to have "user" as a prefix and then some unique number.
I cannot simply
Hi Micah
On Jan 12, 10:11 pm, Micah Carrick wrote:
> I've got my site's authentication working with and email and password
> only--no username (thanks to Shawn Milochik for helping me with that).
> However, I still need to put in a username to make the User model happy. I
> was hoping to have "us
We use a base64 or base36 (if you want compatibility with the contrib.admin)
encoded UUID, or generate a random 30-character string, the odds of a collision
is quite low.
On Jan 12, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Micah Carrick wrote:
> I've got my site's authentication working with and email and password
>
Why not just use incremental numeric user IDs?
On 12 January 2011 21:23, Eric Chamberlain wrote:
> We use a base64 or base36 (if you want compatibility with the contrib.admin)
> encoded UUID, or generate a random 30-character string, the odds of a
> collision is quite low.
>
> On Jan 12, 2011,
Thanks folks.
Here's what I have now. Not the most elegant but it's the best I can come up
with so far. First, I'm generating a random string for the username so that
the form will validate. After the record is saved I change the username to
"user_" and the user ID. This way it looks a little less
Because the id is not known until after the record is saved, so you'd have to
generate some non-colliding filler value anyway. Using incremental numbers can
also leak usage information to the users.
On Jan 12, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Acorn wrote:
> Why not just use incremental numeric user IDs?
>
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Micah Carrick wrote:
> I cannot use uuid4().hex because that's 32 characters... I need <30.
uuid4().hex[:30] is almost as random as uuid4().hex
There are no timers, MAC addresses, or other non-random sections in a
UUID4, so taking any 30-character slice from it s
> I cannot simply copy the email to the username because the username must be
> less than 30 characters and, after looking into my database, many email
> addresses go over that.
Note that you can fix that quite easily by putting something like
this
for f in User._meta.fields:
if f.n
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