NB - putting an '@' sign in an id is a very bad, bad, bad idea. I suppose that's pretty obvious, actually. It was ok for about an hour and then I got Zope errors complaining about the '@' in all frames of the management console. Refresh did not get me any more access to the ZODB. <dtml-var panic> I tried the browser's back button and got to a screen where I could see the object. Deleted the offending object with extreme prejudice, and things are better now. -----Original Message----- From: Joshua Lanza Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 4:00 PM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] user id naming conventions Does anyone have any feelings on the best way to manage user id's? Specifically, I am trying to decide how to create user id's for CMF. I don't want users to have to create a user id themselves - seems like one more thing they have to keep track of and could deter people from using the site. Instead, I wanted to use email address as the id - it's unique and easy to remember. The problem, of course, is the '@' and '.' in email addresses. I could encode both chars at every point that user id is used - a hassle, but possible. The ZODB allows '@' in the id. Any thoughts? _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://lists.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )