[geeklog-devtalk] Remote Authentication ;-)

[Vincent Furia]

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 21:18:54 +0100, Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de> wrote:

> For some reason, I'd prefer usernames to stay short. So how about we

> shorten them to 16 characters (Geeklog's current limit), but extend the

> username field to hold 32 characters in total (that would leave room for

> the @ and up to 15 characters for the service name), and make sure

> Geeklog still only accepts 16 characters.

> 

> Thoughts? Am I making things too complicated again?

The only problem with that is we'd have no way to guarantee unique
user names from the services that allow > 16 character usernames. 
i.e.  mynameismike1234-5678 will be the same as mynameismike1234-8765
in our database.  That would be a BAD THING(TM).  We could still limit
local usernames, but for remote services I think we'll have to allow
whatever the  service does...

-Vinny