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Topic: Username restrictions

Posted By: cyrick
Subject: Username restrictions
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 5:22pm

Why is it that you have hardcoded the inability to create a username with the string "salt" or "code" in it? Are there any security concerns to disabling that function?

Thanks

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 5:46pm

There are as these are field names in the database that contain sensitive data.

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Posted By: cyrick
Date Posted: 06 June 2007 at 7:06pm

Thanks for the quick response.

I am not quite certain how having a user named "Salty Dog" or "CodeWarrior", for example, poses any security threat. There is really no way to inject code into the username field, so I am just trying to figure out why I shouldn't disable it. I have already had 3 users complain that they couldn't use their names because of these functions. Maybe it is just an aberation, but I am surprised this hasn't come up before.