[opencms-dev] USER_NAME question

[Jason Schatz]

Presently I am trying to convert out website over to completely use 
opencms.  However, in our old website we used the users email address as 
their USER_NAME and after tracing through the code I have realized that 
an email address cannot be used  as a valid USER_NAME since it is run 
through the validFilename(String name) method in the OpenCms object.  I 
was just wondering if there was a reason for why the @ symbol is not a 
valid character for user names, or if it would be possible to get a 
patch for OpenCms in which we could allow all of the characters needed 
for using email addresses as usernames, ie the @ sign.

Thanks
--Jason