[Bug 757199] Re: Can we drop any constraints on the username, such as the first capital letter requirement?

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

This bug was encountered by "SnapChick" in
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbyLS9BpwBw#t=1m9s>.

If it's not possible to drop the constraints altogether, an alternative
solution would be to convert disallowed characters immediately when they
are entered. Capital letters could be lower-cased, while other
disallowed characters are converted to dashes. The risk is that if
you're not paying attention, you may not realize this is happening,
leaving you able to log in graphically but not at a console.

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Title:
  Can we drop any constraints on the username, such as the first capital
  letter requirement?

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  I'm running the current natty daily live ISO on a USB stick. If I put
  in a username that's all upper-case in the installer, I get the error
  "Must start with a lower-case letter.". When I change the first letter
  to lower-case, I get "May only contain lower-case letters, digits,
  hyphens, and underscores.". It seems to me that the first error is
  redundant (and thus potentially confusing to users and extra
  translations work), and Ubiquity could just use the second one if the
  username contains upper-case letters, regardless of where they are in
  the username.

  My apologies if this was a deliberate decision; I couldn't find any
  relevant discussion on the topic. Please feel free to set bug status
  to Low and/or Opinion :)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: ubiquity 2.6.0
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.41-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Apr 10 23:51:36 2011
  LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110410)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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