Ah! I'd been reading your previous answer trying to work out its mystic meaning. :-)
So I can't use Access Control to prevent underscores? Looks like I'll have to look more closely at the other earlier responses to my question.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cog Rusty" cog.rusty@gmail.com To: support@drupal.org Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 6:09 PM Subject: Re: [support] getting the underscore to be unusable in user names
On 8/1/07, Cog Rusty cog.rusty@gmail.com wrote:
On 8/1/07, Neil: esl-lounge.com neil@esl-lounge.com wrote:
I found a post on drupal.org that said you could do all of this via Access Rules.
So I went there and entered the following three rules to outlaw underscores
_% - deny/username %_ - deny/username %_% - deny/username
.....and found myself and every other username blocked from the site, unable to log in without getting a "this username has been reserved" error message. Totally frozen out of the site, I had to go into phpmyadmin and get rid of those three entries from the "access" table. Have I ignored something glaringly obvious with those deny rules?
You probably know by now. Those rules for forbidding access can do what you want but that is just a bonus. Their main function is to forbid access to anyone with such a username. Good idea for a new site though.
Oops! I just noticed you said "every" user. Underscore is a wildcard for any single character. -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]