How to remove the username from Drupal

Question

Im building an online community with Drupal

Ive got the logintobbogan module installed which allows the user to login with username or email address

I dont want users to have to select a username, is there any way I can remove this option, or have it automically chosen/hidden

I will add fields for Firstname and Surname to the profile and these will be used to identify the user on the site

Answer 1

A simple solution is to override the theme_username in your theme. That will not print the username, in /most/ places. Places that circumvent this theme_username and use their own logic to print a username (mails, titles etceteras) will still show the username.

Unless you are willing to build a module, this will be quite hard to achieve.

Answer 2

I would recommend the RealName module if you want to show usernames based on profile fields.