1372631 - (bmo-login-names) Allow login_name to be changed to any unique string provided the user has at least one additional email address

Status: NEW

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Email Notifications, enhancement)

Description

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

1. Accounts can be renamed to not include an '@', provided there is a verified and preferred email in the profile's additional emails table.
2. It will not be possible to register a new account without an /@/, this can be accomplished later.

Comment 2

[Lewis Rosenthal]

Why should there be a requirement for an additional email address? I don't recall any mention of such a requirement in the discussion in bug 218917.

I;'m curious as to the logic behind requiring an additional email address. Personally, I prefer to limit the addresses I provide to third parties to limit my risk exposure. Requiring me to give up yet another address simply to avoid exposing my address seems partly counter-productive. Perhaps I'm not grasping the entire concept, however, which is why I ask.

Comment 3

[Neville Hillyer]

My bug was duped here but the original description of this bug is so short that it is not possible for me to say to what extent it may be a dupe.

A more detailed description with examples may be sufficient to discourage me and others from generating further dupes.

Comment 4

[Lewis Rosenthal]

I would concur. A suitable name here would be something like "allow non-email address usernames in BMO" or something to that effect.

Still wondering about the multiple email address requirement, though...

Comment 5

[Dylan Hardison [:dylan] (he/him)]

I'm taking this as I'll probably be doing this in the harmony branch on my own time, if some other things pan out.

Comment 6

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

I’ve created and posted this TODO list: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YeNMhJ2SzIm0KXVTSu52JcdcwALghb8z6FsiHq92DBs

Comment 8

[[e-mail]]

Not sure if this thread is precisely related to what I'm about to describe, but here goes.

When I log into bugzilla.mozilla.org, I see my user name does not match my email address. It shows the email address I used when I registered this account 10 years ago. I have updated my email address since then, and I have updated my bugzilla profile to reflect my new email address. But still, it shows my old address (see screen capture below).

https://i.postimg.cc/NFqcDnjF/Snap114.png

How can I change my user name so that it reflects something other than my old email address

Thank you!

Comment 9

[Emma Humphries ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/they) [:emceeaich] (Pacific Time) use needinfo]

(In reply to [e-mail] from comment #8)

Chester, I'll follow up with you from the bugzilla mods list.

Comment 10

[[e-mail]]

(In reply to Emma Humphries, Bugmaster ☕️🎸🧞‍♀️✨ (she/her) [:emceeaich] (UTC-8) needinfo? me from comment #9)

(In reply to [e-mail] from comment #8)

Chester, I'll follow up with you from the bugzilla mods list.

Muchos gracias!

(Chesler)

Comment 11

[Mike]

This is absolutely ridiculous. I signed in through Github and was not warned my email address would be made public.

Comment 13

[Twisted Code]

I concur with Mike and was outraged when I first sign in with github and noticed that my information was leaked. However, I will also give the administrators this much credit: technically a data skimming bot would need to create an account here in order to see the email addresses.
Not that that's exactly difficult, but at least it's not COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY PUBLIC. Just behind the digital equivalent of a cardboard door with a papier-mâché lock.
Is there anything I can do to help move this along? Also, can you make it so that it will still recognize users that login with github even if the username is not the github email (even if the email has to be somewhere on the account)?

Comment 14

[Kristofer:k]

5 years later and only a warning is issued. The core problem still remains unresolved.