Replace username with alternate login?
gracearoha - April 26, 2008 - 08:37
| Project: | Alternate Login |
| Version: | 7.x-1.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | postponed (maintainer needs more info) |
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Description
Would it be possible to make the alternate login field be required and to have it replace the original username wherever it shows on the site: user profile, node author, blocks, etc?
#1
i think it would be possible to do both with some admin settings and relatively small changes to the code. i don't really have an itch to code this, though. feel free to submit a patch that accomplishes this, or i would also consider sponsorship for writing the code.
#2
sorry, am quite a newb and do not know php - therefore hopeless with code. will look for alternate solution.
#3
@gracearoha: Have you found a way to do this?
I thought of getting all modules to display ONLY the UID and not disply the username - but this approach is better. and i think much less work.
@hunmonk: I really need to get the login name out of the faces of all users. Seems using this module would be my best option, since messing around endlessly with 20+ other modules which display usernames, ID's and whatnot would take forever.
The simple solution - Add an admin feature to this module for "Enable/disable login using ORIGINAL username", and by so enable loging in ONLY with the Alternative Login. What this would do is provide users of my site with a login ID which is never shown to other sites on the site. Since the username would then only be for displey, and not used for login, i don't mind other users seeing these usernames.
Just how much sponsering would this take? ;)
Thanks!
#4
@asak: i'm not clear what your goal is. even if you require the user to login only w/ their alternate login name, that won't have any effect on if their real username is displayed. what am i missing?
#5
My goel is to seperate the username, which is displayed freely and openly on the site, from the login name, which shouldn't be visible anywhere. mainly for security reasons.
I guess i'm assuming something which i haven't checked yet, which is that even while posting messages using an alternative login name the Authored By would still display the username and not the login name. If that's true - then it's a great solution. If not - i think i should find a better approach.
#6
you can contact me in private about sponsoring this feature request, via the contact tab on my drupal.org user profile.
#7
SUbscribing, greetings, Martijn
#8