Re: Long usernames in auth_user?

Then again, you can't assume an email to not have spaces as "John
Doe"@example.com is a valid email per the RFC.

If you *really* need flexibility, have a UserProfile model with a
OneToOne relation to User and your imagination will be the only limit.

Cheers,
AT

On 10/26/11, Kurtis Mullins <kurtis.mullins@gmail.com> wrote:
> Check out userena as well. But a custom authentication back-end was the
> approach I originally took. And to answer your question, yes -- your chances
> of finding people w/ email addresses longer than 75 chars are less than
> finding people w/ 30 chars -- but still a limitation none-the-less as there
> is no limitation on how long an email address can be.
>
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Joakim Hove <joakim.hove@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OK;
>>
>> thanks I was afraid it was not entirely straightforward.
>>
>> On Oct 26, 10:52 pm, Donald Stufft <donald.stu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > This is a known limitation and it's something that people _want_ to get
>> fixed (but just merely increasing the length isn't helpful, because soon
>> someone comes along with the new length + 1 and the same problem occurs).
>>
>> Now - of course the problem can easily crop up again by just
>> increasing length; but if the username length and the email length at
>> least default to the same value (the email field has length 75) the
>> failure will at least be simultaneous - and the usage pattern I
>> describe will work until the 75 characters e-mail limit is reached. So
>> although by no means a full solution, increasing the username length
>> to 75 would in my opinion be a very simple fix with some benefit?
>>
>> Joakim
>>
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