Package: ckanext-emailasusername
ckanext-emailasusernameWe have have found that many of our users quickly forget their CKAN username.
We have also observed several users assume they should use their email to
login.  This fails with a bad login error message, which causes some confusion.This CKAN extension allows users to login or reset their password with either
their email address or their username. It doesn't do away with the username
but just offers the option to use email instead.Out of the box, CKAN allows multiple accounts to be registered with the same
email address.  This causes a problem for using email to identify the user.
This extension therefore adds a validator to the registration form to stop
new accounts being created if there already exists an account with the same
email.If multiple accounts are registered to your email, then identifying the user
by email fails - you must use your username to login/reset your password
instead. It's recommended, if feasible, to work with your userbase to phase
out multiple accounts with the same email.RequirementsThis extension is tested with CKAN 2.9 for python3 only.InstallationTo install ckanext-emailasusername:Activate your CKAN virtual environment, for example:. /usr/lib/ckan/default/bin/activateInstall the ckanext-emailasusername Python package into your virtual environment::pip install ckanext-emailasusernameAddemailasusernameto theckan.pluginssetting in your CKAN
config file (by default the config file is located at/etc/ckan/default/production.ini).Configure CKAN to use the authenticator provided in this plugin. Addckanext.emailasusername.authenticator:EmailAsUsernameAuthenticatorto
the[authenticators] pluginsconfiguration in CKAN's who.ini file. In
ckan core, thise who.ini file is stored inckan/ckan/configand linked
to fromckan/:[authenticators]
plugins =
    auth_tkt
    ckanext.emailasusername.authenticator:EmailAsUsernameAuthenticatorRestart CKAN. For example if you've deployed CKAN with Apache on Ubuntu:sudo service apache2 reloadConfigurationEnsure you have read and completed step 4 of theInstallationsection above.  This step is essential CKAN configuration required for this plugin to work.The plugin also offers the following default configuration settings that can be changed in yourckan.iniconfig file:ckanext.emailasusername.search_by_username_and_email = TrueALtering this config parameter will allow users to search for other users by entering an email address, wherever theuser_autocompleteaction is called. For security reasons all users except sysadmins must enter the entire email address in order to match the user account (otherwise the feature could be used to infer the email addresses of other users).  This may be useful, for example, when org admins are adding a new member to their org and do not know the username of the user they wish to add.ckanext.emailasusername.auto_generate_username_from_email = FalseAltering this parameter will allow creation of users without specifying a username. Instead the username is autogenerated from the email address using some logic taken from CKAN core.  It only affectsuser_createwhere nonamefield is given.WARNING: This CKAN core logic reveals a small part of the user's email to other CKAN users (everything prior to the @ character).Fjelltopp does not recommend using this default logic in public CKAN instances. We have provided a plugin interfaceIEmailAsUsernameto enable you to override the default username generation logic with your own logic meeting your own requirements.ckanext.emailasusername.auto_generate_username_from_fullname = FalseAltering this parameter will change the user registration form Jinja2 template, so that the "Username" field is auto-populated from the contents of the "Full Name" field.ckanext.emailasusername.require_user_email_input_confirmation = TrueAltering this parameter will determine whether the user is required to enter their email twice when filling in the registration form.  This double-entry of their email acts as a crude form of validation to reduce the risk of accidental errors.  Ideally we would implement proper email address validation, but have not yet found the funding or time to do this.  Double-entry is enabled by default, but if you don't like it, use this config parameter to get rid of it.Running the TestsTo run the tests, do::pytest --ckan-ini=test.iniReleasing a New Version of ckanext-emailasusernameckanext-emailasusername is availabe on PyPI ashttps://pypi.python.org/pypi/ckanext-emailasusername.
To publish a new version to PyPI follow these steps:Update the version number in thesetup.pyfile.
SeePEP 440 <http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/#public-version-identifiers>_
for how to choose version numbers.Create a source distribution of the new version::python setup.py sdist bdist_wheelUpload the source distribution to PyPI::python -m twine upload dist/*Tag the new release of the project on GitHub with the version number from
thesetup.pyfile. For example if the version number insetup.pyis
0.0.2 then do::git tag 0.0.2
git push --tagsWith thanks...This extension has been built by Fjelltopp with funding from UNAIDS as part of
the AIDS Data Repository project:https://adr.unaids.org