[support] Forcing username pattern

Dan Karran dan at karran.net
Thu Mar 13 10:33:08 UTC 2008


There is code in the LDAP Provisioning module[1] which you could use to do
this, though the whole module is only really useful if you're going to be
tying into LDAP for authentication. Perhaps the user name assigning part
could be extracted out?


Cheers,
Dan

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks.  I've a question that's come up on a number of my sites now.
>  I'd
> like to be able to disallow users from selecting their own usernames,
> ever,
> even on signup.  Instead, I want to expose various profile fields (or
> custom
> fields via form-alter if necessary) and then base the username off of
> that.
> E.g., first intial and last name, all lower-case.  Does anyone know of an
> existing module or mechanism for that, or a common pattern that could be
> turned into a module?
>
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