[ckan-dev] Using e-mails as usernames

Thu Aug 8 23:40:19 UTC 2013

Hi Aaron,

I'm not sure how spread is this functionality but, with GMail, you can add
a + to create many different emails that all go to the same account (i.e.
me+testuser at gmail.com, me+testadmin at gmail.com, all go to me at gmail.com).
Also, just for testing purposes, mailinator.com is a great tool.

The problem with using just the left of the @ is that it's not guaranteed
to be unique. Maybe adding a random number after the username? I guess, for
this card, it's the best solution, so I could finish it without being
blocked by this discussion.

I still think it's an useful change, though :-)

Cheers,

Vítor Baptista

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2013/8/8 Aaron McGlinchy <McGlinchyA at landcareresearch.co.nz>

> Hi - just a comment re this,  whilst we are testing out CKAN and learning
> how it works (its new to us) I have created several users, with different
> usernames but since they're all me I use the same email address.  I do this
> so I can experience what it is like for a user with different permission
> levels rather than just me as Sysadmin.
>
> I can see both sides of the discussion, but just noting the use case above
> as part of the mix.
>
> >> The problem is that I can't create a user without an username and a
> >> password. To work around this, I'll set them to random values. For
> >> the password, it's OK. But for the username, it's weird.
>
> Could you not parse the email address so that the text to the left of the
> @symbol was the Username - that would presumably be text that made some
> sense to the user?
>
> Cheers
> Aaron
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