I consider that when you want to share a model, you prefer to have some kind of credit.
If you fear your login may be disclosed, just edit the OBJ file and replace your login by whatever you want.
Sorry, but I see that the other way around: never disclose a login name, it's a security leak. In many cases it will not be the name you want to use to get credit with anyway. If I want credit under a specific name I can edit the object file to insert that name but I don't want to edit EVERY object I want to share, and again with updates.If you fear your login may be disclosed, just edit the OBJ file and replace your login by whatever you want.
My username is different on PC and laptop and none are 'Keet', the name I would use to get credit for a shared object. Similar situations will go for most users I believe.
To explain the severity of the problem besides it being a security leak: For several years now I am creating dozens of different houses for a valley/island with most of the furniture, doors, windows, etc. custom made. This problem means I will have to edit every single house. When I have shared the projects (in a year or two) I will have to do all of that again every time I have updated houses and share again.
I'm a software developer. I can create a script or program to run over all houses and do the editing but most other users will not be capable to correct something that the software shouldn't have done in the first place. It's also easy to forget such a last run over the projects before sharing.
If I ever disclosed usernames in software output I would be out of business, please change this to something else. The most perfect way would be to have a preference setting where you can set a name for credit in exports but anything other than a login name would do. Changing 'System.getProperty("user.name")' to '"creator"' is probably the easiest bug fix you have ever done
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