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Detect incompatible characters in username entered in the login screen #133

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
When a user logs in as a guest, they can enter anything they want for the 
username.  Since webdav uses this to name the user's directory, the operating 
system needs to be able to handle all the characters in the name.  Although the 
user thinks they have logged in successfully since they were authenticated, 
there are lots of errors generated and the session doesn't always connect 
properly.  It's probably a good idea to restrict the user's input to the least 
common denominator (no punctuation except underscores).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by nnnjo...@gmail.com on 11 Nov 2010 at 1:18