Re: Google signin

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 11:34 PM, Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu> wrote:
>
>> On 15 August 2017 at 11:18, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > Here's an updated patch that does this. It will try in order:
>> > <firstname><lastinitial>, e.g. stephenf
>> > <firstinitial><lasdtname>,e.g. sfrost
>> > <firstname><lastinitial><number>, e.g. stephenf0, stephenf1, stephenf2
>> etc
>>
>> Taking just the first name or just the last name and a number seems
>> fairly safe but anything that combines letters runs the risk of
>> creating unintentionally offensive words.
>>
>
> That's a good point. OTOH the user still gets a chance to change it before
> they accept it, so they can easily fix that. (And we don't generally have a
> filter for users who intentionally pick offensive words as their logins)
>
>
The latest version of this with some minor bugfixes has now been deployed.

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