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[Lars Helge Øverland <larshelge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Andrew
>
> A problem with modifying the username is that the password hash is
> also encoded and saved using the username as part of the hash
> algorithm.  So in order to modify the username you would also need to
> reenter the password in order for it to be re-encoded.  This might be
> problematic - even superusers don't necessarily know the passwords of
> the users.
>

Yes. I also think it is bad practice to change user names. You can
always fall back to creating a new user...

Lars