[ic] Automatically generating usernames and passwords

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Mike Heins)]

Quoting John Allman (allmanj@houseofireland.com):
> Hi - i realise this is a bit of an odd one but i want to be able to have 
> a page similar to the usual new_account page but which will optionally 
> generate a new unique username and password if none are supplied. At the 
> moment i'm considering using a counter as the basis for the username and 
> locking it and incrementing it each time a new username is created (i'm 
> intending to do this by using mysqls locking abilities. is there a 
> better way to do it?)
> 
> Unfortunately my approach to having it optionally use a different 
> username if none is supplied doesn't seem to work. My plan was to set 
> username in mv_click if it was not already set, but it doesn't seem to 
> be working. I stripped down my code to just set username regardless but 
> still nothing.
> 
> Can someone point out what's wrong with this?
> [set EmailCheck]
>         [value name=username set="fartknocker"]
>         [perl]
>                 $CGI->{username}="fartknocker";
>         [/perl]
> [/set]
> 
> other than ugliness, like. i have mv_click set to EmailCheck in the form.
> 
> I'm guessing my whole approach is wrong. Can anybody give me advice?
> 

I don't know why you don't just use the "assign_username" option
of the userdb tag.....there is an example in etc/log_transaction.

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