# Why is an email address an invalid string in the User Name field on Signup? **URL:** \ **Category:** Get Help\ **Tags:** signup\ **Created:** [February 14, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/why-is-an-email-address-an-invalid-string-in-the-user-name-field-on-signup/9493 "2018-02-14T23:19:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chris.morrow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/User_font_awesome.svg/768px-User_font_awesome.svg.png) [@chris.morrow](https://community.auth0.com/u/chris.morrow)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/why-is-an-email-address-an-invalid-string-in-the-user-name-field-on-signup/9493/1 "2018-02-14T23:19:37Z")
Our application will require a legacy support through the database connection and require user name. This causes the user name to be required on new signups. We’d like to tell our users who decide to signup to use their email address for both email address and user name for simplicity. The user name field will not let you enter an email address? Are there other options here? ---
**Author:** ![James.Morrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/james.morrison/32/13507_2.png) [@James.Morrison](https://community.auth0.com/u/James.Morrison)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/why-is-an-email-address-an-invalid-string-in-the-user-name-field-on-signup/9493/2 "2018-12-17T15:34:04Z")
As it has been more than a few months since this topic was opened, and there has been no reply or further information provided as to the existence of the issue, we are closing this topic. Please don’t hesitate to create a new topic if this issue is still present, we would be happy to work with you to help find a resolution. ---
**Author:** ![James.Morrison](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/james.morrison/32/13507_2.png) [@James.Morrison](https://community.auth0.com/u/James.Morrison)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/why-is-an-email-address-an-invalid-string-in-the-user-name-field-on-signup/9493/3 "2018-12-17T15:34:07Z")