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Posted to dev@vcl.apache.org by Satoshi KOBAYASHI <sa...@hitachi-solutions.com> on 2012/03/02 14:14:03 UTC
Changing the "e-mail address field" editable
Hello.
At present, the e-mail address displayed at the "User Preferences" page
is a "read only" field. We are thinking that allowing users to change
the e-mail address by themselves will make it more convenint.
To do this, we speculate that editing the "userpreferences.php",
to change the e-mail address field editable, and to post it to the database will work it out.
Please help us if there are anything to consider by making this change.
Thank you.
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Satoshi KOBAYASHI
Re: Changing the "e-mail address field" editable
Posted by Aaron Coburn <ac...@amherst.edu>.
Satoshi,
The other issue you will need to consider relates to how users authenticate. If you use LDAP, whenever the updateLDAPUser() method is called, the email field is overwritten with the value received from the LDAP server. The same applies to Shibboleth authentication, though here, updateShibUser() is the method in question. Either way, for every non-local user account, the email address is, by default, overwritten in the database whenever the user logs in.
So in addition to userpreferences.php, you will also need to modify the relevant file in .ht-inc/authmethods.
Aaron
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On Mar 2, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Satoshi KOBAYASHI wrote:
> Hello.
>
> At present, the e-mail address displayed at the "User Preferences" page
> is a "read only" field. We are thinking that allowing users to change
> the e-mail address by themselves will make it more convenint.
>
> To do this, we speculate that editing the "userpreferences.php",
> to change the e-mail address field editable, and to post it to the database will work it out.
> Please help us if there are anything to consider by making this change.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> ----------------------
> Satoshi KOBAYASHI
>
>
>
>
Re: Changing the "e-mail address field" editable
Posted by Satoshi KOBAYASHI <sa...@hitachi-solutions.com>.
Aaron Coburn, Josh Thompson, and Aaron Peeler.
Thank you for advice. These are cool ideas!
We'll consider to customize based on the advice, and contribute the source code.
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Satoshi KOBAYASHI
Re: Changing the "e-mail address field" editable
Posted by Aaron Peeler <aa...@ncsu.edu>.
And maybe this 'emailcustom' option could be in the affiliation table?
It would allow for more flexibility for sites supporting multiple
affiliations.
Aaron P.
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Josh Thompson <jo...@ncsu.edu> wrote:
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> Satoshi,
>
> I think this is a good idea, especially for local accounts. For LDAP based
> accounts, the code will look for the email address from LDAP. If it doesn't
> find it, I believe it will set it to a default based on what is in conf.php.
> There are 2 ways I might go about dealing with that.
>
> 1) Add an extra field to the user table - "emailcustom" that is a boolean. If
> a user manually sets his password, then set emailcustom to 1, and never
> overwrite the email address with something from LDAP.
>
> 2) Always allow the email address to be updated from LDAP if it is provided,
> but if it is not provided, never update it and only set it to the default when
> the account is initially added to the user table.
>
> Those are just some suggestions of things to think about.
>
> When you finish this, I'd love to see it contributed back. :)
>
> Josh
>
> On Friday, March 02, 2012 10:14:03 PM Satoshi KOBAYASHI wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> At present, the e-mail address displayed at the "User Preferences" page
>> is a "read only" field. We are thinking that allowing users to change
>> the e-mail address by themselves will make it more convenint.
>>
>> To do this, we speculate that editing the "userpreferences.php",
>> to change the e-mail address field editable, and to post it to the database
>> will work it out. Please help us if there are anything to consider by
>> making this change.
>>
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> ----------------------
>> Satoshi KOBAYASHI
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Re: Changing the "e-mail address field" editable
Posted by Josh Thompson <jo...@ncsu.edu>.
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Satoshi,
I think this is a good idea, especially for local accounts. For LDAP based
accounts, the code will look for the email address from LDAP. If it doesn't
find it, I believe it will set it to a default based on what is in conf.php.
There are 2 ways I might go about dealing with that.
1) Add an extra field to the user table - "emailcustom" that is a boolean. If
a user manually sets his password, then set emailcustom to 1, and never
overwrite the email address with something from LDAP.
2) Always allow the email address to be updated from LDAP if it is provided,
but if it is not provided, never update it and only set it to the default when
the account is initially added to the user table.
Those are just some suggestions of things to think about.
When you finish this, I'd love to see it contributed back. :)
Josh
On Friday, March 02, 2012 10:14:03 PM Satoshi KOBAYASHI wrote:
> Hello.
>
> At present, the e-mail address displayed at the "User Preferences" page
> is a "read only" field. We are thinking that allowing users to change
> the e-mail address by themselves will make it more convenint.
>
> To do this, we speculate that editing the "userpreferences.php",
> to change the e-mail address field editable, and to post it to the database
> will work it out. Please help us if there are anything to consider by
> making this change.
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> ----------------------
> Satoshi KOBAYASHI
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VCL Developer
North Carolina State University
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