topic Re: Login by email Address in Alfresco Archive

Login by email Address

midoscofield — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 12:27:42 GMT

Hi,Can i change the authentication by Email address?Thanks.

Re: Login by email Address

afaust — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 07:54:44 GMT

Hello,

there is no default authentication mode for this that you can simply activate. But it can be implemented with some custom developed extensions (I just did in a customer project).

Regards
Axel

Re: Login by email Address

midoscofield — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 08:49:51 GMT

Hello Axel,
Can you give me at least some ideas on this subject here please.Thanks!

Re: Login by email Address

afaust — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 21:52:13 GMT

It all depends on which interfaces you want to support. In my case, we implemented login by email for a custom Share-based UI. This involved a custom login page, a facade for the Surf user factory, a custom authenticator for connections between Share and the Repository, and a custom login web script on the Repository tier. The latter one used the email to uniquely identify the user, resolve to the technical user name and then perform the normal authentication procedure (similar to default login web script).
Apart from the login page, all components required custom Java development.

If you search the internet a bit, you'll also find a couple of addons that do or at least claim to offer login by email functionality.

Re: Login by email Address

midoscofield — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 08:55:41 GMT

Hello Axel,
Ok thanks very much!

Re: Login by email Address

soloff — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 20:20:48 GMT

Can we get source code? please?!