[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:  accepted         
 Priority:  high               |   Milestone:  2.9              
Component:  Users              |     Version:  2.8              
 Severity:  major              |    Keywords:  has-patch early  
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Comment(by Denis-de-Bernardy):

 Well, what the patch currently does is this:

  - set user_login to user_email when no user_login is supplied
  - for such users, work out a user_nicename (used in permalinks) based on
 the first part of the email (the stuff up to the @, basically), which is
 left unchanged from that point forward
  - for users where user_email = user_login, change user_login along with
 user_email; for users where user_email <> user_login, keep user_login
  - allow to log in with either of user_login or user_email

 the only real remaining question are:

  - per westi's suggestion, whether we should allow users to pick a
 user_login when none is present
  - per simonwheatley's question in IRC yesterday, whether we should allow
 users to change their user_login when one is present

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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/9568#comment:39>
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