Use the email to login instead of another username?

[David ARNOULT]

Hi!

Is it possible in RS? It would be so simpler...

Cheers

[Mike Perry]

Just make the username the e-mail you want to use.

[Frederick Yocum]

This is what we do. we haven’t attempted to change the ResourceSpace UI to accommodate this. It means there’s an extra step of copying over the email address from email field to the username field. Eventually, we’d like to incorporate  ResourceSpace into our single sign-on, so I haven’t spent too much time trying to figure out how to finesse the current sign on process.

[David ARNOULT]

Hi!

Thank you guys for your answers. I already do that (copying email in username field) but copying data in database and having an extra step is not satifactory, especially when you have many users to manage!

As users always remember their email, not their username, my question is: whatever the username, is there a way to make RS use the email field instead of the username field to log in? 

it is now the best practice in authentification system, in Moodle for instance, it is possible to activate it as an option:

https://docs.moodle.org/311/en/Authentication_FAQ#:~:text=of%20external%20methods.-,How%20can%20I%20have%20users%20logging%20in%20with%20their%20email,was%20added%20in%20Moodle%202.7.

Maybe an idea to integrate this feature for the future roadmap via config or a new plugin... I have reported my request to Dan Huby for info.

BR