0004114: Same email allowed for multipe users

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0004114	mantisbt	bugtracker	public	2004-07-16 13:13	2011-12-27 13:02

Reporter	KickTheDonkey	Assigned To	rombert
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	no change required
Product Version	0.19.0a1

Summary	0004114: Same email allowed for multipe users
Description	The same email address is allowed to be assigned for mulitple users.
Steps To Reproduce	Register for a new account with an email address. Register for another new account with the same email address
Additional Information	This kind of hampers things like a 'Forgot Password' feature, which should/could depend on looking users up by email address. I can't think of any value in allowing users to sign up for multiple accounts with the same email address. Should user try and signup for an account with a duplicate addy, maybe they should be pointed to a 'forgot your password' page (which I realize is not completed yet, per bug 0000633).
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tazza70 2004-07-18 05:54 reporter ~0006111	While this may be beneficial for some installations, there are probably a lot of installations that use the same email address for multiple Mantis accounts (eg. for support@xyz.com types of addresses). Also, introducing this feature in a new version would break compatibility for existing installations which do currently use this.

grangeway 2004-07-23 19:15 reporter ~0006280	In this case, the forgot password feature should check if >1 account exists, and in that case send a password 'reset' email for both accounts.

rombert 2011-12-16 09:10 reporter ~0030638	lost_pwd_page.php asks for both the username and the email password , so there is no change required here.

related to	0000633	closed	masc	email lost password page
related to	0009093	closed	vboctor	Add a configuration option to enforce email uniqueness