[Zope-CMF] using email address as userid

[alan runyan]

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to create a site where the user logs in
> with their email address. CMF seems to have a check to
> make sure we dont add any users with nasty things like
> '@' and '.'  Is there a good reason for this? (ie Will
> I break something if I tell it to go ahead and create
> the user anyway)

nope.. wont break anything ... you need to subclass MembershipTool and
override the 'allowed_characters' regex

> If the best solution is not to store the email as the
> userid, does anyone have any tips on what I should use
> instead (a numerical sequence?).

/me shrugs

maybe use their email username? and increment numbers behind it? thats what
I've done w/
commerce tool

~runayga

> Thanks in advance...
>
> joe
>
>
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