Are there any issues that I have to think about when I want to rename a loginname for a user straight in the database?

I might want to do that to free up names for people to register.

Members may not like that your messing with there data?

I would just delete them, if there inactive for long periods.

Sorry i dont know the cons of modifying a "login" Name.

The loginname is only stored in the USERS table so there shouldn't be any technical issues with it.

To free up that name for somebody to use as a displayname.

If a user logs in as "X" and uses displayname "Y", it blocks "X" as displayname for everybody.

Thanks Rick for your answer.

ahhhh i didnt know that

Learning Every Day

Yeh mark, if login name or public name are in use, neither can be used as a login name or public name... Kinda sad lol...

It is me, or was there talk here about ubb using the e-mail adres as loginname instead of a seperate login name.

It's kind of a waste that it blocks loginnames for people to register as displayname.

The beta testers as a whole didn't like the idea :ahem:...

It does kind of make sense though, I mean, it'd be kind of confusing if it worked otherwise...

Though I would like to see the ability to edit login names in the admin CP

Boooh beta-testers



Sort of, but we have recently introduced display name changes on our board, and it's kinda confusing for members not to able to take usernames that happen to be loginnames. If a login name is nothing more then a login name, why block it as display name.

so we don't like change and wanted things how they've always worked ;)...

Yeh, but as a mod/admin if you're punishing a user with the display name "pooh" and you see someone with the username "pooh" you could jump tot he conclusion that they're the same people and thus shun someone who would otherwise have no direct coorilation to the other..

So, go have fun with ubb.classic v1.00 then and let us go on with newer and better things ;)...



I basicly have nothing to do with loginnames, except maybe to try to help a user with logon problems. Displayname is the thing we track for our "punishments".

Hey now, I'm partially responsible for a ton of feedback and ideas of a lot of features that people now enjoy, including the SE friendly URLs that just about every forum product utilizes now and UBB.threads' new CAPTCHA system...

I still remember CC asking me why in the hell anyone would want their forum indexed on a search engine :x... Then various people asking why we'd need CAPTCHA protection when email validation worked for a lot of users...

We couldn't see a reason why we would want to use our email address as the login name, and we enjoyed the system as it was in the first place and saw no real need for change...

I like punishment... Rick stopped punishing me though, and Charles left the company... And Dave, he hasn't the time anymore

I hope you did see my smiley behind my comment

Things happen from practise, as I said, we started allowing display name changes, and then you really stumble on to taken names by loginnames.

I do have a solution now thanks to this topic, I know I can change the loginname, but it's a hassle for the user with that loginname and more administrative work.



Don't tell the ladies

You get stuck with PDN's sometimes and when you use a forum solution that doesn't have them you're all "you mean I have to put AS CaSe how I want my name to display AS MY LOGIN NAME?" (which is generally cAsE SeNsAtIve), craziness :x...

Lol you could change their info and use the "send password to this user" link in the cp; should send them their login name and a temporary password...

And the ladies know all about the punishment :ahem:!

Yeh, was meerely bored, been sick as a dog for the last week and felt like ranting about something :x