[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #9568: Allow users to log in using their email address

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#9568: Allow users to log in using their email address
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 Reporter:  Denis-de-Bernardy  |       Owner:  Denis-de-Bernardy            
     Type:  feature request    |      Status:  accepted                     
 Priority:  high               |   Milestone:  2.9                          
Component:  Users              |     Version:  2.8                          
 Severity:  major              |    Keywords:  has-patch needs-testing early
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Changes (by Denis-de-Bernardy):

  * keywords:  has-patch early => has-patch needs-testing early


Comment:

 refreshed patch attached, that takes comments from above into account.

 - registration form -> unchanged (requires a username)
 - login form -> allow to log in using username or email
 - internal functions -> mostly changed as was previously done: if no
 username is present, use the email instead (this is to allow for imports
 from 3rd party software that lack a username)
 - edit user form -> it now requires the user to fill in a username if it
 was lacking
 - new user form -> it allows to fill in no username (this is mostly for
 testing purposes, but this also allows users registered by the admin to
 choose one to their liking)

 needs testing.

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