[wp-trac] Re: [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:  new              
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:  2.8              
Component:  Users              |     Version:  2.8              
 Severity:  normal             |    Keywords:  has-patch tested 
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Comment(by misterbisson):

 I'm concerned that using preg_replace("/@.*/", "", $user_email) as the
 username creates a large opportunity for duplicate usernames. Also, the
 idea of building permalinks against an email address (which will
 necessarily change in my application as applicants become students at my
 university) seems off.

 This isn't the solution, but the plugin I developed filters sanitize_user
 (which is used for all sorts of things other than actually sanitizing
 usernames/aside) and replaces it with a random string (pattern: 'p'. rand(
 0, 9 ) . randomstring( 7, 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz' )). I then replaced
 wp_authenticate() so it tests against get_user_by_email().

 As noted above, that isn't a solution for anybody but me, but it does
 result in slightly more friendly author URLs than numbers alone. Still,
 I'd prefer using the user ID over using anything based on email address
 (other than, perhaps, an md5 of the email address).

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