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Matt Simerson wrote:
Re: Login restrictions.
From: Shawn Hogan
Date: Friday, March 5, 1999
Time: 10:03:08 am
>One of my employees just stumbled across a real problem. We need to have
>a preference for forcing login names to be lower case. I'm not sure if
>you're familiar with the problems that will be created with mail delivery
>should a login name be entered in upper case on your unix system but it
>will be a problem.
>
>In the office, we're all smart enough to know that and make sure it's
>entered in lowers but we're looking at setting up the signup server
>and our users aren't all that smart. I can just see getting a call on
>Monday morning from Joe Luser who set up his account on Saturday but can't
>get his email.
>
>Can we set a preference forcing login names to entered in all lowers, or
>just auto-magically convert any caps in the login field to lowers?
>
>Since we're on the subject, can we also force them to use only alpha and
>numeric characters in their login name?
>
>And, last but not least, force the login name to start with an alpha
>character?
Mmmmmm... something like that would unfortunately need to be done via
some sort of JavaScript on the web interface...
- Shawn
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