[support] login with email and/or "hiding" user.name

[Luke]

You may find the realname module useful, in combination with some of the 
others already discussed.

http://drupal.org/project/realname

Luke

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo wrote:

> Hi all,
> I've to move users from a legacy system to D5.
> 
> In the legacy system the user name for login was the email.
> 
> Users will produce some public content.
> 
> In many places drupal uses the user.name to refer to users but I
> can't of course use users' emails to refer to users.
> 
> I can't even force the users to change the way they login. So they
> have to continue to be able to login with email, password.
> 
> One way would be to automatically fill name with something
> auto-generated during import and change the login process (looking
> for some clean idea that won't involve changing core, form_alter?).
> 
> Any other suggestion?
> 
>