Re: [Dspace-devel] enh rqst: register users by username rather than email address
It's not just the publishing world - it's very common across the internet to use email addresses as the login identity - Amazon, Google Accounts, Windows Live, Yahoo, Ebay - I could go on forever. There are strong advantages to using email addresses for login identities - they are unique and easy to remember. (As in you don't have to remember what id you registered on X because your preferred username had already been taken). However, the email address is not the primary key to the EPerson store, so there is no reason why the email address can't be updated (it certainly can by admins). G On 17 December 2010 18:20, Andrew Marlow marlow.and...@googlemail.comwrote: I realise that it is very common in the publishing world to treat the email address as a the username but I would still like to see dspace support the idea of a user that is identified by userid. Users would have an email address which could be changed without the having to change the userid. Is there any chance of adding this to dspace please? People do change their email addresses from time to time. -- Regards, Andrew M. http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d___ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
[Dspace-devel] enh rqst: register users by username rather than email address
I realise that it is very common in the publishing world to treat the email address as a the username but I would still like to see dspace support the idea of a user that is identified by userid. Users would have an email address which could be changed without the having to change the userid. Is there any chance of adding this to dspace please? People do change their email addresses from time to time. -- Regards, Andrew M. http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d___ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
Re: [Dspace-devel] enh rqst: register users by username rather than email address
Some authentication plugins use the netid to identify a user with an eperson. Come to think of it, this is an ongoing source of complexity when dealing with eperson records: a given eperson might have non-null values for one or the other or, I suppose, both. It would simplify things a bit if we had a single eperson attribute which serves as the unique identifier and has no other function. The temptation to use email address as UID is strong, because it is (a) unique, (b) personal, and in the vast majority of cases (c) wanted anyway.* It has the added attraction that, because it is unique, the user can provide it without trial and error. As you point out, it has the disadvantage that the binding between address and user is subject to change as a result of outside influences. Saving one column by overloading another is often false economy. The other common approach is to have the user make up a username and then tell him that someone else already has that one. This yields a mildly negative user experience. I would not like to see DSpace do this. Then there's an approach that I hardly ever see: collect profile information, look up the email address as a check for duplication, and then respond, you are number six. I would suggest that this is the simplest and best approach, except that some people take exception to being issued an identifying number by a machine. (I don't -- last time I checked, there were three other people in my home town named Mark Wood, and one even shares my middle initial; but that number is MINE.) --- * These would seem to be the same observations which mislead some people in the US to conclude that the Social Security Number would be a handy source of unique personal identifiers, even though their business' threat model is vastly different from the one faced by the SSA. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Balance your desire for bells and whistles with the reality that only a little more than 2 percent of world population has broadband. -- Ledford and Tyler, _Google Analytics 2.0_ pgprbV03rrolm.pgp Description: PGP signature -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d___ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
Re: [Dspace-devel] enh rqst: register users by username rather than email address
when I said userid I did not mean integer. I meant username. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Mark H. Wood mw...@iupui.edu wrote: Some authentication plugins use the netid to identify a user with an eperson. Come to think of it, this is an ongoing source of complexity when dealing with eperson records: a given eperson might have non-null values for one or the other or, I suppose, both. It would simplify things a bit if we had a single eperson attribute which serves as the unique identifier and has no other function. The temptation to use email address as UID is strong, because it is (a) unique, (b) personal, and in the vast majority of cases (c) wanted anyway.* It has the added attraction that, because it is unique, the user can provide it without trial and error. As you point out, it has the disadvantage that the binding between address and user is subject to change as a result of outside influences. Saving one column by overloading another is often false economy. The other common approach is to have the user make up a username and then tell him that someone else already has that one. This yields a mildly negative user experience. I would not like to see DSpace do this. Then there's an approach that I hardly ever see: collect profile information, look up the email address as a check for duplication, and then respond, you are number six. I would suggest that this is the simplest and best approach, except that some people take exception to being issued an identifying number by a machine. (I don't -- last time I checked, there were three other people in my home town named Mark Wood, and one even shares my middle initial; but that number is MINE.) --- * These would seem to be the same observations which mislead some people in the US to conclude that the Social Security Number would be a handy source of unique personal identifiers, even though their business' threat model is vastly different from the one faced by the SSA. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Balance your desire for bells and whistles with the reality that only a little more than 2 percent of world population has broadband. -- Ledford and Tyler, _Google Analytics 2.0_ -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel -- Regards, Andrew M. http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d___ Dspace-devel mailing list Dspace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-devel
