[Zope] user id naming conventions

[Joshua Lanza]

NB - putting an '@' sign in an id is a very bad, bad, bad idea. I
suppose that's pretty obvious, actually.=20

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.=20

<dtml-var panic>=20

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.=20


-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Lanza=20
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?


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