[ckan-dev] Forgotten usernames

Tue May 15 09:52:48 UTC 2012

On 15 May 2012 10:44, Mark Wainwright <mark.wainwright at okfn.org> wrote:

> It seems the + thing isn't part of the mail standard, so it's not
> reliable if used as an address. For instance a mail sent to
> mark.wainwright+testing at okfn.org is returned as unrouteable.
>

try testing+mark.wainwright at okfn.org

it is part of the standard though may not be fully implemented by all email
systems

>
> Anyway, I'm not sure what behaviour you are suggesting. I want to be
> able to log in without remembering my username, so needing to remember
> mark.wainwright+markw at okfn.org wouldn't help. Perhaps that's not what
> you meant though?
>
> Apart from cleaning up existing problems, I suggest there's no real
> problem with not allowing more than one username per address.
>
> Alternatively, if I log in by e-mail address and I have more than one
> username, I could get a screen asking me to choose which one I am
> trying to log in with. This is a bit clumsy I suppose, but most users
> would never see it.
>
> Mark
>
>
> On 15 May 2012 10:14, Ross Jones <ross.jones at okfn.org> wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > We have a branch that allows user login via username and/or email
> address, but the problem is that we don't have a unique constraint on email
> address in the database so progress stalled whilst deciding how to perform
> the migration.
> >
> > Now that you've brought it up again, one solution might be to use
> name+tag@ addressing to handle duplicates, so if I have registered twice
> with ross.jones at okfn.org for different accounts maybe we could just
> relabel them ross.jones+username1 at okfn.org and
> ross.jones+username2 at okfn.org? They should still get delivered as they
> are valid email addresses.   Not sure how straightforward that would be to
> do in a sql migration though.
> >
> > It may be that we are worrying about an issue that doesn't exist on
> datahub.io, but we can't assume it doesn't happen elsewhere.  Also I
> suspect we'd be best placed to make this optional.
> >
> > Ross.
> >
> > On 15 May 2012, at 10:05, Mark Wainwright wrote:
> >> I think the easiest fix is to be able to log in with your e-mail
> >> address. In my experience most sites do this these days, as users find
> >> it easier to remember their own e-mail address than the various
> >> usernames they have on all the sites they use.
> >
> >
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