How to set limit username length when user register new account ?

By lungtung on 7 Nov 2007 at 02:47 UTC

Hi,

I want to set limit username and password length when user register new account ?
I don't want some user on my site (www.drupalvn.org) register new acount as a name: 1 or a or b or....
I know i can set deny in "Access rules" (admin panel) but i can't set all because its too much

sorry for my bad english
jingjang
Drupalvn.org - drupal vietnam community

Comments

Let's say you want to set

deepak@dipak.org commented 7 November 2007 at 02:56

Let's say you want to set the minimum length of username to be 6. Here's how to setup an access rule:

Access Type: allow
Rule Type: username
Mask: ______%

That's 6 dashes (_), followed by a percent sign.

I think that should work.

Deepak

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VM commented 7 November 2007 at 03:23

6 underscores

OK, i have test, but its not

lungtung commented 7 November 2007 at 04:00

OK, i have test, but its not work ???
after i do that, i click "check rules"
And drupal show me the message: "The username lan is allowed."
I think its not work
Any suggess ?
Thanks

and i try to deny username

lungtung commented 7 November 2007 at 04:04

sorry, i think i must read some handbooks

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If you have not figured out

GreenLED commented 1 March 2008 at 07:58

If you have not figured out yet how to do this, here's something I came up with. I don't know if it's the proper way to go about it, but it DOES work.

Username (3-14 characters long)

deny username %_______________
deny username _
deny username __

Set these three rules -- all are deny rules associated with username. Copy and paste the rule (after username) and you should have a total of 3 rules set. Then adjust accordingly to your needs. the top rule is obviously the "no more than 14" character rule. If you need more "minumum" length you'll have to add more rules with more characters. Aparently you have to manually set every character. Time-consuming, but it works. I don't know again if this is the way to do it, but -- hey it works.

Hi GreenLED Yes, now i can

lungtung commented 1 March 2008 at 08:38

Hi GreenLED

Yes, now i can say with you "hey it works"

many thank (-:

Drupal Vietnam community

Does Drupal 6 have some more

GreenLED commented 25 June 2008 at 17:04

Does Drupal 6 have some more controls for this? I haven't installed D6 yet so I was just wondering.

» Respectfully, GreenLED
» Stable Files . net

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VM commented 25 June 2008 at 18:01

access rules are the same in D6 as they are in D5 and are handled in administer -> access rules

I had hoped that there would

GreenLED commented 25 June 2008 at 18:06

I had hoped that there would be some more development on those controls, but thanks for the information anyhow.

» Respectfully, GreenLED
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Username (6+ characters

wlx20005 commented 3 February 2009 at 03:07

Username (6+ characters long)
deny username _%
allow username _______%

I'd like to reserve 4 (and

benone commented 24 July 2009 at 21:47

I'd like to reserve 4 (and less) letter accounts for special users. Only admin could create the account with less than 5 letters username.
How can I set the rules to let those special users normally login to their accounts ?

first set a 'deny' access

rocket777 commented 28 September 2009 at 08:55

first set a 'deny' access rule for 4 characters and less as noted in the above comments
and then 'allow' access to those usernames that the admin creates

E Ismail

I'm surprised that you can

Stomper commented 28 July 2011 at 01:07

I'm surprised that you can set a minimum password length without creating rules, yet you still have to create rules to specify username length. Shouldn't this functionality be built in by now (D6)?

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VM commented 28 July 2011 at 03:43

Isn't available in D7 core either. When someone codes it and put's up a patch is when it will get into core I'd guess.

Does this apply to spam registration

ss54 commented 27 June 2014 at 12:40

@VM
I noted that almost all the usernames of spam registrations are using long username. An Idea occurred to my mind, that if I use this rule and restrict the user name to be tween 4-8, these spammers will get busted. I also thought that spammers use different mechanism that do not go through these access rules. What do you think. I am suffering especially from Drupal 6 where Captcha and Botcha did not prove effective.

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VM commented 27 June 2014 at 13:46

that decision is yours. Any legitimate user that inputs a long user name would also be excluded from doing so. Personally, I'd try other modules than captcha or botcha like honeypot or mother may i. Limiting spam tends to mean you need to employ one or more methods and adjust as spam bots get smarter.