from the source it seems that the setting create_user_groups
which has a default of "user_%(id)s" can be used. in your case it seems that setting it to user_%(username)s should do the trick. On Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at 8:48:49 PM UTC+2, Antonio Salazar wrote: > > I've disabled user group creation, but now I need user-specific > permissions, so I'm going to re-enable it and create the missing user > groups. I'd really like the groups to be user_[username] instead of > user_[user_id]. > Is there an upgrade-friendly way to base the group name on something other > than the user id? > > I know it's best practice to use the id because it's unique, but in my > case, the username is also unique and invariable. I'd bear the slight risk > of inconsistency in exchange for human-readable group names. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.