[TYPO3-dev] BE: usernames must not start with an exclamation mark?

[Uschi Renziehausen]

Hi Dmitry,

thanks for your answer.
Dmitry Dulepov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Uschi Renziehausen wrote:
>> I do not know whether this is a bug or not, therefore I ask here before
>> reporting the issue.
>>
>> In my local installation I have a few testusers with the naming scheme
>> !something. If I try to login as such a user it does not work. Is this a
>> bug or am I just ignorant of certain naming rules for BE usernames?
> 
> It must be a bug. User name is defined in the be_users table as 'nospace,lower,unique,required', which does not any restrictions on the character level (except space).
> 
> Btw, if not a big secret, why do use '!'? :) Is it for VIPs? :) (! = VIP, !! = VVIP, ...)

The exclamation mark users are my testusers. Whenever I change something I do a su, and with ! at the beginning they are right at the beginning of the alphabetical userlist, that is all.

Uschi
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