Callsign Changes

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Aimbot
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Callsign Changes

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How come you cant put the '!' sign anymore and all the other ones?
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special characters are being dissolved as we get ready to move towards a new login system.
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What about people who had special characters a long time ago? Will they have to change their callsign?
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Yes, their login may cease to function after the new login system is put into place. We should have a migration page for users though, as passwords would have to be migrated over as well.
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At some point, the most likely answer would be yes...
We are looking to move to an LDAP architecture with it providing authentication for all of our services (forums, in-game, wiki, image submitter, etc...). Many characters are problematic in several of these applications and we must take these limitations into consideration.
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