hub-feedback Allow hyphenated usernames and organization names

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As you can see, I have a hyphenated username on GitHub. Same thing on GitLab. I also use hyphenated organization names with both services. Not being able to use the same names on Docker Hub is confusing at best. It would be really nice if the user/organization naming rules for the various services you want to integrate with are the same.

Sep 30 '15 10:09 paddy-hack

We really would like to have that feature, too, for gap-system (which is called that way everywhere, except on Docker Hub, where it is gapsystem).

Dec 22 '15 18:12 fingolfin

+1

Dec 22 '15 18:12 sebasguts

+2 - one for for gap-system, and one for my username too.

Dec 23 '15 00:12 olexandr-konovalov

+1. I'd really like this for an organization I'm working with too, mongo-express.

Feb 23 '16 00:02 knickers

Any idea why this issue is closed? Hyphens in names is pretty important and #280 seems to be about short names...

May 11 '16 04:05 dwmkerr

This issue hasn't been closed, the docker-solr/docker-solr#24 issue has.

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May 13 '16 05:05 dwmkerr

+1 same problem here - would like consistent github/dockerhub user and organisation names

Nov 16 '16 13:11 mg14

+2 !

I would prefer to use the same name from Github as well, for both scenarios.

My user name; ivan-pinatti

Organization; ciandt-dev

Nov 27 '16 20:11 ivan-pinatti

+1

Nov 28 '16 18:11 larruda

+1

I interested in this feature too. My organization name use hyphen both in Bitbucket and Github and would be good to use the same pattern in Docker Hub.

Nov 28 '16 18:11 lisotton

+1

Dec 09 '16 15:12 htakeo

+1

Dec 09 '16 15:12 bruunosilveira

+1

Dec 09 '16 15:12 marianahycit

+1

Dec 09 '16 15:12 halisonfernandes

+1

Dec 12 '16 10:12 volkyeth

+1

Dec 12 '16 13:12 erickj-ciandt

+1

Jan 05 '17 15:01 arno-vdk

+1

Feb 07 '17 22:02 da-n

how about underscores?

Feb 19 '17 01:02 drts01

For a number of folks the problem cropped up when their hyphenated real-world names managed to get into company login names literally, which doesn't cause problem for the most part because dashes aren't special characters to the shell. Other real-world name bits, like apostrophes and and spaces (O'Henry, mac Allister, etc, this list is NOT exhaustive) are both special to the shell and in other context, so admins resist them with good reason. So mostly we're taliking about names that admins thought would be fine as logins (both Unix and the Windows) and are controlled by company policy and often very, very hard to fix for long-term employees, YET we still want github/gitlab/whatever to be adopted easily within the organization, which wants to use LDAP auth or whatever from their current authentication server as the git* auth service.

So, the idea is to let that just work. Oddly, I've never seen an underscore in a real name or a login name, but YMMV. :-) I don't think Git services likely ever end up being company's core auth servers, but should that happen, there's the reverse (small? Anyone seen this?) risk that github's permissiveness would cause the problem in reverse. So I wouldn't recommend going nuts here,

I totally haven't checked, but if Github's intent is to allow Unicode usernames, that's would seem at first to derail having any restrictions at all, but there are still good reasons to ban token-splitting special characters - most unicode looks pretty opaque and harmless from that perspective in a way a space or asterisk totally doesn't.