Using username for rodauth features

[doloboyz]

Hello,

I was wondering how I would go about allowing rodauth to use either an email or a username within the accounts table for features like login and forgot password.

[jeremyevans]

You can set login_uses_email? false to not require logins be emails. However, the reset password, lockout, verify account, and related features would at least need a custom email_to configuration so they know where to send emails for the account.

[janko]

You can override account_from_login to allow either username or email:

account_from_login do |login|
  # handle the case when login parameter is a username
  unless login.include?("@")
    login = db[:accounts].where(username: login).get(:email)
  end

  super(login)
end

[doloboyz]

Would this approach still require custom configuration for other rodauth features as Jeremy described above?

[jeremyevans]

No. From Rodauth's perspective, your login would be your email, and that's the default for email_to. However, if you provide a username when logging in, Rodauth would translate it to the related email. There would still be some custom work to set the :username field for accounts.