Bug 679539

Summary: Disallow use of # at the beginning of a user name
Product: Red Hat Web Site Reporter: Amanda Carter <acarter>
Component: UGCAssignee: Derek Brown <debrown>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Sai Haritha Dandala <hdandala>
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Version: MR29CC: bkearney, dcassel, jayan, vlaad
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Description Amanda Carter 2011-02-22 19:46:53 UTC
Use of this character at the beginning of a login causes breakage in certificates when the login name is used in them. There are 53 users who have logins with # as the first character. We will develop a business process to handle them, but would like to clean this up going forward so that we don't get more.

Comment 1 Kelly Porter 2011-02-23 16:58:09 UTC
Devil's Advocate:
Can't we just "allow" use of "#" in a login name in certificates?
Kelly

Comment 2 Kelly Porter 2011-02-23 16:59:14 UTC
Is it typical for companies to disallow use of "#" at the beginning of a user name?

Comment 3 Amanda Carter 2011-02-23 17:08:20 UTC
No, this breaks certificates.

Comment 4 Bryan Kearney 2011-02-23 17:09:43 UTC
sorry.. technical limitation.

Comment 5 Derek Brown 2011-03-09 15:40:08 UTC
I need translations for the following error message when a user begins the login with a # symbol: "Login cannot start with (#) symbol"

translations needed for german, spanish, italian, japnese, french, korean, portugese and chinese

Comment 6 Sai Haritha Dandala 2011-03-11 19:12:00 UTC
verified in dev for english error message

Comment 7 Sai Haritha Dandala 2011-03-25 14:08:46 UTC
Verified on WebQA for english

Comment 8 Sai Haritha Dandala 2011-03-30 16:09:20 UTC
Verified error message on WebQA for following transaltions - 

Spanish: Elnombre de acceso no puede comenzar por el símbolo (#).
French: L'identifiant de connexion ne peut pas commencer par le symbole (#)
Korean: 로그인은 (#) 기호로 시작할 수 없음
Portugese: O login não pode ser iniciado pelo símbolo (#)
Chinese: 登录名不能以 # 符号开头

Comment 9 Nicole Yancey 2011-03-31 14:00:24 UTC
Released to Production 3/30