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
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
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
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
