Forum OpenACS Improvement Proposals (TIPs): TIP#126 (Implemented) Allow users to optionally provide email when authority does not

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1: TIP#126 (Implemented) Allow users to optionally provide email when authority does not
Posted by Dave Bauer on 08/29/08 04:15 PM
In some cases an autenticaton authority, such as auth-ldap, may not provide all information a user needs to create an account. This TIP would add an optional parameter to allow the user to enter the missing informaton when logging in from an external authority.

This requires small changes to acs-auhthentication to accept passed in email, first_name, and last_names parameters, and a small change to the registration page to detect when a field is missing and provide the user with the correct fields to fill in.

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2: Re: TIP#126 Allow users to optionally provide email when authority does not (response to 1)
Posted by Rocael Hernández Rizzardini on 08/31/08 04:36 PM
Sounds like a common use case, sometimes I have users with their ID but not their email for instance. Just make sure you do make clear information about the usage of the parameter.

Approved.