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[Louis Twomey <louis.twomey AT heanet.ie>]

Hi Tomasz,
One of our client sites has usernames in their database which include an
'@' character (those account names are basically e-mail addresses e.g.
a.b AT gmail.com),
 so their users use an eduroam inner username which does
not include their realm (since two occurrences of '@' in the inner
identity is not supported by many/any wireless clients).

There are other solutions to the problems posed by such usernames, but
leaving the realm out of the inner identity is the simplest. It's a very
unusual scenario, I expect, but it is one (small) argument in favour of
making automatic addition of the realm an optional feature.

Regards,
Louis.

On 05/04/2016 10:22, Tomasz Wolniewicz wrote:
> Hi,
>    Obviously this has been requested several times, so probably it is
> time that we should do something about it, at least in installers where
> we can control things.
> 
> There are two sides to this problem.
> The first is notification on incorrect username input. This one probably
> is not really controversial, but things need to be specified, for one -
> do we have cases where the username *should* be provided without the
> realm (this is just the inner identity, so the realm is not necessarily 
> required). Perhaps we should need another option (defaulting to set)
> which would be "require realm for inner identity"?
> How should the notification be done? Should we just react when no realm
> is given or additionally in the case when a realm is set in the CAT
> profile should we also require that the username *ends* with the
> provided realm? I would be against an exact match of the realm as people
> may have subrealms which are perfectly valid.
> 
> 
> The second side is pre-filling the username field with something.
> I do not expect that people who *do not want* such a feature cared to
> speak up so far, but I can imagine that such people may exist, as I
> would be one of them. In the case of my university people are used to
> providing usernames with realms also in WEB applications, and besides we
> need to support several subrealms so providing a partially filled field
> with a possibly wrong value, would likely cause confusion. Therefore
> such behaviour of the installers would need to be optional (hence yet
> another option to master by the admins).
> Assuming that we go ahead with such an option, I would like to discuss
> how this can be implemented.
> In the case of Windows installer we now have:
> Username: <input field>
> 
> How should the <input field> be prefilled? Should it be:
> 1. "@my.realm"
> 2. "user AT my.realm"
> 3. "some_descriptive_text AT my.realm"
> 
> Any opinion very welcome.
> 
> Tomasz
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> W dniu 2016-04-05 o 08:02, Patrik Holmqvist pisze:
>> That is something we would like as well.
>>
>> Regards Patrik
>>
>> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
>> Från: Zenon Mousmoulas 
>> [mailto:zmousm AT noc.grnet.gr]
>>  
>> Skickat: den 4 april 2016 21:48
>> Till: 
>> cat-users AT lists.geant.org
>> Ämne: Re: [[cat-users]] Feature request for login name
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have also asked recently whether it would be possible for CAT installers 
>> to auto-fill, suggest or optionally enforce the realm configured on the 
>> profile into the username input, even if only on some platforms; this is 
>> by far the most common end-user issue. Alan Buxey suggested it has also 
>> been requested before that.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Z.
>>
>> On 2016-04-04 15:43, Thomas Andersen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Would it be possible to configure the installer in a way that users 
>>> are either forced to enter an email address as username or that the 
>>> installer simply adds domain to the username itself?
>>>
>>> Br,
>>> Thomas
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