136797 - Don't require default regexp when creating administrator account.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

We currently require the administrator account created in checksetup.pl to
satisfy emailregexp, and give an error if it doesn't.

However, it's unlikely the administrator has had an opportunity to change the
params at this point, since there is no administrator account.

Hence, to make this useful for people with non-default emailregexps, I suggest
if params does not exist yet we give a warning in this situation.  If they
proceed we should write out .* and the emailregexp.

Comment 1

[Joel Peshkin]

These unloved bugs have been sitting untouched since June 2002 or longer.  If
nobody does anything else to them, they certainly won't make 2.18
Retargetting to 2.20.  If you really plan to push them right now, you might pull
them back in.

Comment 2

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

This bug has not been touched by its owner in over six months, even though it is
targeted to 2.20, for which the freeze is 10 days away. Unsetting the target
milestone, on the assumption that nobody is actually working on it or has any
plans to soon.

If you are the owner, and you plan to work on the bug, please give it a real
target milestone. If you are the owner, and you do *not* plan to work on it,
please reassign it to [e-mail] or a .bugs component owner. If you are
*anybody*, and you get this comment, and *you* plan to work on the bug, please
reassign it to yourself if you have the ability.

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

Max, is this bug still valid?

Comment 4

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

Well, it's still *true*. We use User->create to make an admin.

However, I see nothing wrong with requiring his username to be an email address by default. He can change it after he logs in--that's not too hard.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 218917, which splits email addresses and login names (and makes checksetup prompt for both), will effectively fix this. There is no equivalent of emailregexp for login names (although some chars are banned always). So the admin will always be able to log in.

Gerv

Comment 6

[Frédéric Buclin]

So this is wontfix in favor of bug 218917.