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I have this code that makes sure the username is only letters and numbers but then way my code is set up I need it to check if the preg_match is false. Right now it says "if secure echo this" I need it's logic to say "if not secure say this". Can someone help me out? if (preg_match('/[A-Z]+[a-z]+[0-9]+/', $username)) { echo 'Secure enough'; } You can negate the condition like this: if (!preg_match('/^[A-Za-z0-9]+$/', $username)) { echo 'Secure enough'; } Also, your regex needs to be [A-Za-z0-9]+ if you mean "alphanumeric" (only letters and numbers) as a whole. The regex in your code would

in a mini virtual community, i have a profile_view function, so that i can view the profile of any registered user. The profile view function has as a parameter the id of the user wich the profile belongs to, so that when i want to access the profile of user 2 for example, i call it like that: http://127.0.0.1:8000/accounts/profile_view/2/ My problem is that i would like to have the username in the url, and NOT the id. I try to modify my code as follows, but it doesn't work still. Here is my code: view: def profile_view(request, user): u = User.objects.get(pk=user) up = UserProfile.objects.get

So my question is straight forward given a linux username and a password how can I test if it is a valid account? You can validate that a given password is correct for a given username using the shadow file. On most modern distributions, the hashed passwords are stored in the shadow file /etc/shadow (which is only readable by root). As root, pull the line from the shadow file for the given user like so: cat /etc/shadow | grep username You will see something like this: username:$1$TrOIigLp$PUHL00kS5UY3CMVaiC0/g0:15020:0:99999:7::: After the username there is $1. This indicates that it is an MD5

Is there any way to change the Git username and email for Xcode? When I try commit now it will post my real name. I want it to post my GitHub username so that you can link commits to my user on GitHub. Usually with Git I've been able to just type git config --global user.name whoosh in the terminal but it doesn't seem to work on Mac and Xcode. VonC As mentioned in " Where is the Git commit info set in Xcode 4? ", XCode takes user information from your contact card from your (2012) Address Book ( called Contact in 2014 ). Changing your contact card would change user information (for new commits