Hi, If you're using Django 1.1, you're probably hitting up against the 30 character limit for usernames. first name.secondn...@domain.com, for example, is 32 characters. You might also be hitting against a specific character invalidation -- I'd need to go back and check when we started allowing full stops and hyphens in usernames, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was after v1.1.
So - How do you update your site? First step -- upgrade your Django install. At this point Django 1.1 isn't officially supported, so it has *known* security problems (all the problems we've fixed in Django 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5). Second step - look into Custom User Models, added in Django 1.5 [1] There are some other approaches that you can take on pre-Django 1.5 versions, but they involve a bit of hacking to make them work. You'll be best served by upgrading and using the new features designed for this purpose. Yours, Russ Magee %-) [1] https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/auth/customizing/#specifying-a-custom-user-model On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:09 AM, vanderkerkoff <tonm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello there. > > We're running a 1.1 django application and have run into a bit of a > problem. > > Recently our organisation decided to change its email addresses. > > Moving from myn...@domain.com, to firstname.secondn...@domain.com > > I've just tried adding a user to the site and I'm bumping up against an > invalid email address stopping the user being added :-( > > We've done hardly any development of the admin backend, and absolutely > nothing at all with the users section of the admin backend. > > Could anyone point me in the right direction of how I go about allowing > this new format of email address in the backend when adding a user? > > Even switching validation off would be better than the current situation. > > Any help, greatly appreciated as always. > > V > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
