Re: Google signin

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)

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