Configure Microsoft.AspNet.Identity to allow email address as username

Question

I'm in the process of creating a new application and started out using EF6-rc1, Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Core 1.0.0-rc1, Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.EntityFramework 1.0.0-rc1, Microsoft.AspNet.Identity.Owin 1.0.0-rc1, etc and with the RTM releases yesterday, I updated them via NuGet this evening to RTM.

Apart from a couple of code changes to the work I'd done so far, all seemed to be going well, until I tried to create a local user account for the app.

I had been working on e-mail addresses being the username format which with the release candidate worked great, but now when creating a user with an email address for a username, it throws up the following validation error:

User name [email protected] is invalid, can only contain letters or digits.

I've spent the last hour or so searching for a solution or documentation on configuration options for it, but to no avail.

Is there a way I can configure it to allow e-mail addresses for usernames?

Answer 1

You can allow this by plugging in your own UserValidator on the UserManager, or just by turning it off on the default implementation:

UserManager.UserValidator = new UserValidator<TUser>(UserManager) { AllowOnlyAlphanumericUserNames = false }