[support] Forcing username pattern

[Earnie Boyd]

Quoting Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com>:

> 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?
>

Perhaps http://drupal.org/project/webserver_auth or 
http://drupal.org/project/logintoboggan; I haven't used them but the 
text of the system seems like it would be good places to get ideas.

Earnie -- http://for-my-kids.com/
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