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Is it possible to let users of your GL site login with their email address instead of their username ?
Which settings do I have to change ?
Let me know guys ...
Regards, David

Since the email address has to be unique, it should be possible to do that. But I'm not aware of anyone ever trying it.

bye, Dirk

To start, you would need to change SEC_authenticate (in lib-security.php) to allow "username" to be an email address. Simplest way to do that is to assume any username with a '@' sign is an email. Then compare the value against the email field insted of the username field. Like this:

// replace $result = DB_query("SELECT ...."; with
if (strchr($username,'@' !== FALSE) {
$sql = "SELECT .... WHERE email = '$username' and ...";
} else {
$sql = // the original sql statement
}
$result = DB_query($sql);

You might also change the text on the login template to "user name or email:"

That should get you 95% of it. I'm not sure what other gotchas there might be though so you would need to test it well.