Question

This issue was originally brought up in EmailAddressAsLogin

We will introduce single sign-on (SSO) and using the email address as login would be ideal. We changed a regular expression in the registration to recognize email addresses and having made tests we know that registration and usage work fine.

This method along with the new RequireRegistrationPlugin would help us a lot. However this method means that all email addresses would be listed in one file and unless this is made secure we could be asking for a lot of spam like trouble. Has anyone experience with using email addresses for login? What issues should we look out for?

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-- PeterJones - 02 Aug 2007

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-- PeterThoeny - 26 Sep 2007

We are using email addresses as login too. To solve the issues associated with this (presence of special characters, and listing of all emails in the TWikiUsers topic) I created the LoginEmailPlugin.

It's funny that you are also using the RequireRegistrationPlugin that I wrote.

-- ByronIgoe - 21 Nov 2007

Thank you for this pluggin, Byron. However, why not to envisage a normal registration as it is with FirstnameLastName? BUT to allow ResetPassword? by providing the email only. Because the LoginName? could be forgot and less the EmailAddress? . I intend to restrict the UserList? but to allow ResetPassword? with EmailAddress? . Would you developp this type of Plugin ? Denis

-- DenisLeclerc - 13 Mar 2008