Using e-mail address as login name in Roller

[Henning Kulander <he...@linpro.no>]

Hi!

Has anyone tried to configure Roller to use the users e-mail address as
login name instead of the username in rolleruser, which is not allowed
to contain @ or .?

This functionality is needed to migrate users from an older blogging
system to Roller, without having to inform all users of new login names
etc... 

What do I have to do to accomplish this?



-- 
Regards,
Henning Kulander
System consultant
Linpro AS - Norway's #1 Linux company

Re: Using e-mail address as login name in Roller

[Allen Gilliland <al...@sun.com>]

There is actually a property in the roller config file that lets to set 
which characters are allowed for usernames.

# allow "_" in usernames
username.allowedChars=A-Za-z0-9_

The example above is used to add underscore "_" characters to the 
username.  If you wanted email address then you should add a few more 
characters ... ".", "@", "-" and possibly others.

-- Allen


Henning Kulander wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Has anyone tried to configure Roller to use the users e-mail address as
> login name instead of the username in rolleruser, which is not allowed
> to contain @ or .?
> 
> This functionality is needed to migrate users from an older blogging
> system to Roller, without having to inform all users of new login names
> etc... 
> 
> What do I have to do to accomplish this?
> 
> 
>