I would like to remove all traces of Username from my site.

Instead I would like users to login using an Email Address and then have there Real Name be displayed next to their post. This is the way Facebook functions and wonder why it is so difficult for drupal to do.

Has anyone successfully done this and can tell me how it's done?

I'm trying to use a combination of RealName, Email Registration, and LoginToboggan.

Thanks in advance for any help I might receive.

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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Okay. Are there places I missed? Certainly any module that uses theme('username',...) should work the way you want with RealName.

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Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (fixed)

No further information.

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drupalok commented

subscribing! definitely the way it should be!!!!!

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nancydru
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Subscribing to a closed issue?

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drupalok commented

ups... overlooked the second post
sorrry

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darumaki commented

Ever hear of privacy ? What if the user does not want their real name posted on the internet. Who gets to have control over this you or the user. Most users (intelligent users) do not want their real name on public sites.

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nancydru
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"Real Name" doesn't necessarily mean their legal name; it means a name composed of one or more fields taken from their user profile, rather than their login name. Additionally, this module does support the Profile Privacy module which gives them the ability to turn off the use of any of those fields.

As an example, my test site shows me as "Beautiful Webmistress." How can that be considered a privacy issue?

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philbar commented

Ever heard of a Facebook?

There are many legitimate reasons to use real names on social websites. I'm personally creating a collaborative authoring site which needs real names and user profiles to be used to insure credibility of the authors and also to attribute the writing to their "real world" authors.

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madwalo commented

i totally agree

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heystswede commented

So long... did you achieve your goal?