Illegal username (solved)

Client Joined: Dec 24, 2004 Posts: 194 Location: Michigan

7.6 patched 3.2 sentinal 2.4.2pl5 and forums updated to .20

last week i did the updates to the patched 3.2 and sentinal 2.4.2pl5 and a user notified me he's getting "Illegal username" upon login...never had this before this is the first time...i searched here and didnt really come up with anything that looked similar to this....look like maybe connected to something in the Your_Account module ?

Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:03 pm

What is his username? Does it uses anything other than alphanumeric characters?

Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 10:30 pm

no its all letters but does contain a space....i found this and applied with no luck of correcting the issue [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:38 am

About spaces in names see also:
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Other illegal usernames like t.i.m.o.n aren´t allowed this depends on the nuke and patch version.

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:32 am

Patched 3.2 adds a third check to the username

Code:




if (isset($username) && (ereg("[^a-zA-Z0-9_-]",$username))) {

Changing the ereg to allow a space should fix it

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 7:38 pm

yup that seems to have done it THANKS a Bunch
just for clarification for the next person that looks for this issue :
/modules/Your_Account/index.php
around line # 25 find the above code
and heres what mine looks like after editing

if (isset($username) && (ereg("[^a-zA-Z0-9_- -]",$username))) {

Regular Joined: Feb 16, 2004 Posts: 69

I had the same problem...

I changed the code in Your_Account
to if (isset($username) && (ereg("[^a-zA-Z0-9_- -]",$username))) {

it will now allow them to log in but I get an error
at the top of the page.

Warning: ereg(): REG_ERANGE in /var/www/html/modules/Your_Account/index.php on line 24

Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6433

Thanks for following up on this.

New Member Joined: May 23, 2006 Posts: 1

i also had the same problem. Mine is fixed..users can register with tags. But when i try to edit a user to add tags in forum admin i get this :

Sorry, but this username contains an invalid character such as

Is there something extra i need to do to edit/add tags..instead of editing sql tables?