[ckan-dev] Forgotten usernames

Tue May 15 09:58:52 UTC 2012

As Toby pointed out, it's called sub-addressing and + signs are definitely valid parts of an email address (as indeed are ( and ) ).

I wasn't necessarily suggesting behaviour that would resolve the forgotten passwords, rather behaviour that would allow us to implement 'login via email address'. I don't like the idea that I can put in an email address and get a username back, others may disagree, but I think several usernames with one email address makes email address login a 'rough edge'.

Ross.

On 15 May 2012, at 10:44, Mark Wainwright 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.
> 
> 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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