Creating Deadline Users

[MikeOwen]

Hi,
Couple of things I noticed when Deadline usernames are created manually (instead of being tied to system name):

1. spaces are allowed at the beginning of the username.
2. spaces are allowed at the end of the username.
3. Various characters such as [ and ] are allowed in the username.

There must be some kind of best practice guide around for user naming convention on the web?, especially to keep AD happy. I know LDAP will wrap the username in quotations, so it is normally happy. However, best practice

I do know the following if it helps:

1. Numeric only user accounts is bad. Confusing. Easier to guess/hack.
2. Numeric-only UPN logon names (won’t be routed across trusted forests)
3. Accounts starting with ‘S-’ (might be considered SIDs). Therefore bad.

So, I’m thinking the only characters that should be allowed as a deadline username are:

1. 0-9
2. a-z (capitals are seen as the same and shifted to be lowercase it would seem at the moment - so this bit is already in place )
3. _
4. .
5. @

anything else, including spaces should be disallowed?

[rrussell]

Hey Mike,

We can definitely place tighter restrictions on the user names you can create, so we’ll do that for beta 7.

We’ll go off of Active Directory’s invalid character list.

Cheers,

• Ryan