Hi.
I can only speak for v1.4.2, but I don't think it is much different for
1.5.x: as email is a column of of eperson table (which also gets a
eperson_id column), why couldn't you change the email value, instead of
using a pseudonym.
This would be better if the user could change the email himself.
--
François Parmentier / INIST-CNRS
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Jochen Lienhard <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> thanks to Bruc for the answer and to Kevin for the patch.
>
> I think my third question about the email-address is a basic question,
> that not only touches shibboleth.
>
> If I understand right, the email-address is the login-name of the user
> and the address, where to post the alerts.
> Can this email-address change? perhaps if someone moves to another
> provider.
> If it could not be changes all alerts get lost and the user must create
> the list of alerts again.
>
> The email-address is the basic value to give the rights to a person too,
> isn't it?
> Can you be sure, that this person will keep the email-address forever?
> ... I think NO, because some provider
> assign email-address after some time again to other persons. So this
> person can get the password,
> with the forgotten call and login and have the rights of the other
> person before.
>
> I think pseudonym (targetedID) would be a nice feature for users, who
> want to use alerts and nothing else,
> but for the authors you need some more informations too.
>
> Coming to my final point and question:
> Can the email-address be replaced by a pseudonym, or isn't this
> imposible because of the DSpace
> user database.
>
> Greetings
>
> Jochen
> >
> > 3rd question: should be easy to use targetedID as an identifier, will
> upload the patch for it soon (including your suggested modification from
> awhile back!).
> >
> >
> >
> > Third question:
> > Can I use a targetedID instead of the mail-address for Shibboleth?
> > But how can I add the email address direct in DSpace when using
> shibboleth?
> >
> >
>
> --
> Dr. rer. nat. Jochen Lienhard
> UB Universität Freiburg
> Dezernat EDV
> Tel: (0761) 203-3908
> Email: [email protected]
>
>
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