# Galaxy username rules

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-username-rules/14275>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** galaxy-ng\
**Created:** [January 6, 2014, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-username-rules/14275 "2014-01-06T11:15:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_Heca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Michael\_Heca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Heca)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-username-rules/14275/1 "2014-01-06T11:15:35Z")

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Hi,

I have problem with username michael.heca to Galaxy. Role is not installable from this account, because ‘.’ in username.  
Please disallow ‘.’ in username.

Please allow same username as on Github. There if now limit on length. On Github I have 5 char in username.

Regards  
Michael Heca

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**Author:** ![tannerjc](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/tannerjc/32/985_2.png) [@tannerjc](https://forum.ansible.com/u/tannerjc)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-username-rules/14275/2 "2014-01-06T16:10:33Z")

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Check if this commit resolves your issue: [https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ccbc99fe4fa415a7d30ab173a3d5d8733cd50ef8](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ccbc99fe4fa415a7d30ab173a3d5d8733cd50ef8)

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Heca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@Michael\_Heca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Heca)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-username-rules/14275/3 "2014-01-08T13:01:47Z")

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This commit works:

heca@pc-heca: ~/work/ansible/tmp $ ansible-galaxy install michael.heca.apt  
downloading role ‘apt’, owned by michael.heca  
no version specified, installing master

- downloading role from [https://github.com/orgoj/ansible-apt/archive/master.tar.gz](https://github.com/orgoj/ansible-apt/archive/master.tar.gz)
- extracting michael.heca.apt to roles/michael.heca.apt  
michael.heca.apt was installed successfully

but now is problem with roles containing ‘.’ in name

heca@pc-heca: ~/work/ansible/tmp $ ansible-galaxy install binarytemple.ubuntu.docker.installer  
downloading role ‘installer’, owned by binarytemple.ubuntu.docker  
Sorry, binarytemple.ubuntu.docker.installer was not found on [galaxy.ansibleworks.com](http://galaxy.ansibleworks.com).

Thanks  
–mh

Dne pondělí, 6. ledna 2014 17:10:33 UTC+1 James Tanner napsal(a):

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**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/galaxy-username-rules/14275/4 "2014-01-08T14:01:58Z")

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Yep, looks like this should be

parts[1:-1]

or something similar.

I’ll pass this along!