On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 12:13 +0200, Hedley Roos wrote: > > betahaus.emaillogin works just fine with remember so I don't have a need > > to change the remember code in any way to allow users to login with > > their email address. My main need is to be able to remove the id field > > from the reg_form and instead autogenerate this as it is confusing users > > who are wondering why they need to enter a username as they will be > > logging on with their email address. > > > > Your suggestion re. changing the help text is a novel one and I'll see > > if I can sell this to the client, though. > > Hi Tim > > If you autogenerate an id I assume it is going to be computed from the > email address. If that is the case then it means that users' email > addresses can easily be retrieved from an URL, which is breach of > privacy. That warning is usually enough to convince the client :)
Good thinking 99 ;) but unfortunately the client has asked me to autogenerate the usernames based on a sequential 4 digit number (betahaus.emaillogin just authenticates directly against the member email addresses) so can't use that argument unfortunately :( -Tim > > Hedley > > > -- > Archive: > http://www.openplans.org/projects/remember/lists/remember/archive/2009/06/1244110430264 > To unsubscribe send an email with subject "unsubscribe" to > [email protected]. Please contact > [email protected] for questions. > -- Archive: http://www.openplans.org/projects/remember/lists/remember/archive/2009/06/1244110664966 To unsubscribe send an email with subject "unsubscribe" to [email protected]. Please contact [email protected] for questions.
