[support] getting the underscore to be unusable in user names

[Cog Rusty]

On 8/1/07, Cog Rusty <cog.rusty at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/1/07, Neil: esl-lounge.com <neil at esl-lounge.com> wrote:
> > I found a post on drupal.org that said you could do all of this via Access
> > Rules.
> >
> > http://drupal.org/node/29694
> >
> > 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.