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[#2523] - Spaces in username is not allowed
- Closed
- 3 Dec 2013
- Medium
- Build: master
- # 2523
Steps to reproduce the issue
Upgrade Joomla! 3 to latest 3.2
Edit existing user account of which username contains whitespace
Hit "save"
Expected result
Data is stored
Actual result
Error message about username containing not allowed characters
It looks like this functionality has been intentionally removed. I don't think it's wise. In my opinion white space in user name increase the security.
Most important however is that it is breaking badly the backward compatibility. After an update (this happens apparently in Joomla! 2.5 as well) all existing user having white space in username are not able to update their account.
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I've just come across this problem on a website I look after and just want to agree with Radek - terrible for backwards compatability. The website I look after has around 3000 users, a fair number of which have spaces in their usernames and after the 2.5.16 update they are unable to update their user details without getting the error message.
As much as I hate to modify core files I'm going to revert the users.php file back to the 2.5.14 version to get around this problem.
I hope this is addressed in the next Joomla update... if there is a strong desire to have the "no spaces" policy for usernames, perhaps it could be provided as an "option" so that it can be used for new websites but not break existing ones.
Cheers
Nathan