Dear All, At Harvard we have a requirement to augment the standard registration/login process by providing an option to use a custom Harvard specific login. This is similar to the built in certificate based login, except that it will redirect to a Harvard specific access management application that handles authentication, and also extracts the values (name, email, etc.) from our LDAP to create and fill into the e-person table in DSpace. Since we can also extract department and faculty status from LDAP, we will also automatically add the e-person to appropriate groups for submitting items.
There is a possibility that some faculty may want to change the e-person email address used for DSpace messages, for example from an official Harvard email address listed in LDAP to a gmail or other address. Our question for a core DSpace developer is this: if we provide a MyDSpace option to modify the email address (perhaps with an email-back step like the current registration mechanism), and a user does that, will this break anything in DSpace? It looks like the DSpace data model uses the e-person ID, and not the email address, as the unique key for identifying a user, but we'd like your input before considering allowing the email address to be changed. Thanks, Flemion. Office of Information Science. Harvard University Library. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
