Search Again: Re: Login restrictions. From: Aaron Lynch Date: Friday, March 5, 1999 Time: 10:23:41 am as a work around then, how about a warning on the web page 'must be lowercase' and then have OG convert logins when it does some index or other action? Shawn Hogan wrote: > > Matt Simerson wrote: > > >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 > > ------------------------------- > Shawn D. Hogan > President, Data Point Solutions > http://www.data-point.com > (619) 452-3696 > ICQ: 8319647 > > ------------------------------------------- > To subscribe, unsubscribe and list archive > please visit http://www.data-point.com/lists > ------------------------------------------- -- ~Aaron Digital Speed Networks, Inc. aaron@digispeed.com Mac, NT and UNIX web hosting www.digitalspeed.com ------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe and list archive please visit http://www.data-point.com/lists -------------------------------------------

Messages In This Thread: Login restrictions. by Matt Simerson on Mar 5, 1999 at 9:49:05 am Re: Login restrictions. by Shawn Hogan on Mar 5, 1999 at 10:03:08 am Re: Login restrictions. by Aaron Lynch on Mar 5, 1999 at 10:23:38 am Re: Login restrictions. by Aaron Lynch on Mar 5, 1999 at 10:23:41 am Re: Login restrictions. by Shawn Hogan on Mar 5, 1999 at 10:30:38 am Re: Login restrictions. by Matt Simerson on Mar 5, 1999 at 11:44:23 am Re: Login restrictions. by Shawn Hogan on Mar 5, 1999 at 11:51:03 am Re: Login restrictions. by William H. Williams on Mar 5, 1999 at 11:51:04 am