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Submitted by rkvirani on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 04:29.

How do I disable the username from being displayed public, this is the case in Moodle and for us it works perfectly, we use a students number (which is not public information) as their username, I would like to know how to get Mahara to facilitate this. The only place I have seen it is in the display of messages and profiles.

This is a show-stopper for us and your wonderful piece of software (which is damn slick!)

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Only the admins see the

Submitted by nigel on Fri, 08/29/2008 - 07:24.

Only the admins see the users' usernames. Other normal users just see preferred names, or firstname + lastname.

You can modify the handling of the display_name function in lib/user.php if you wish to change this.