Re: [xwiki-users] User names may not contain periods

For legacy reasons. A long time ago, having dots in document names was not really working, since a dot separates the document's space and name. Plus the fact that users are just documents in the wiki. This restriction is no longer relevant, except that there's a lot of code that needs to be revisited to remove this restriction. On 05/11/2014 08:38 PM, [email protected] wrote:

Why does this restriction exist? It makes it difficult to map through to LDAP if we can't map to AD/LDAP username field that contain periods, such as format of "firstname.lastname" which is quite common. Also, it is possible to authenticate to xwiki using email address and password rather than user id and password?

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