v1.0.0 can register more than once with a single email address

[jkim485]

Should this be allowed?

[raddick]

This is really a question about the portal. Leaving it open here for now until we're ready to test Mitya's new portal.

[thakar]

Yeah it would make testing the portal very hard indeed if you couldn't
reuse emails (of course, it probably has no way of checking validity of
email addresses so you could use fake ones).

I thought casjobs did in fact enforce unique emails but clearly it must not
any more.

Ani

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On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:38 PM, raddick notifications@github.com wrote:

This is really a question about the portal. Leaving it open here for now
until we're ready to test Mitya's new portal.

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[raddick]

The current production CasJobs does indeed enforce unique emails. I just tried creating a new account with my current email, and got an error saying "Cannot create account; this email already exists."

Forget about testing - what about our end users? Do we want to allow multiple registrations on the same email address?

I don't think that allowing multiple registrations on an email hurts the user, but it does mean that we can't use email as the primary key in the users table.

Thoughts?

[thakar]

We don't use email as PK anyway AFAIK, probably webservicesid or userid.
However, we do need to continue to enforce email uniqueness in general, to
discourage people from creating multiple accounts just to get more space,
or when they forget their credentials.

Ani

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Center for Astrophysical Sciences and
Institute for Data Intensive Engineering & Science (IDIES), JHU
3701 San Martin Drive, Baltimore MD 21218-2695
410-516-4850, thakar@jhu.edu, www.sdss.jhu.edu/~thakar

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On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 9:13 AM, raddick notifications@github.com wrote:

The current production CasJobs does indeed enforce unique emails. I just
tried creating a new account with my current email, and got an error saying
"Cannot create account; this email already exists."

Forget about testing - what about our end users? Do we want to allow
multiple registrations on the same email address?

I don't think that allowing multiple registrations on an email hurts the
user, but it does mean that we can't use email as the primary key in the
users table.

Thoughts?

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#5 (comment).

[jkim485]

I haven't seen a case using email address as PK. Agreed with Ani on enforcing email uniqueness .

[raddick]

OK, sounds like we've decided that we do want to enforce email uniqueness. Should we close this issue, then?

[raddick]

Oh, but the issue said that the user can register with more than one email address. That's not the behavior we want.

So this is no longer a question, but a bug. Changing labels accordingly.

[jkim485]

I think that this issue should be moved to single sign-on login portal.

@mikear69
please confirm it and close it.