I work at a radio station, and we could various family members sign up for a contest. We are looking toward doing signups via the web and this is a possibility I have to consider.
I work at a radio station, and we could various family members sign up for a contest. We are looking toward doing signups via the web and this is a possibility I have to consider.
Not really a good idea to allow multiple accounts with the same email.
You couldn’t implement any sort of user recovery then.
Why not? Recovery could require both items for verification.
So if it’s not a good idea, how do I register family members that only have one email?
You can still make email field Unique and stop multiple use of same email!
It may work for members posting messages separatelly, but even if you require both items for a password recovery, as the email is only one per family, any member with access to the email account will be able to reset other’s passwords, unless you keep the username hidden and nobody knows the other’s usernames
Indeed it is a use case, but I admit that I’ve never seen this before, imho we have to cover the majority of cases and treat the exceptions
What if we create an option to allow developers to choose among username, email or both for authentication? It could be a configurable option for the app.
Waiting for your thoughts on this
Thanks
Regards
I have created a template app that allows login via username OR email. I admit that it does expect a unique username and unique email, and that for MOST apps this is good. However my use case is a valid requirement that I have for an upcoming app.
The password recovery is something that I will have to be figured out. Maybe an email verification, but if they are using the same email I would think they trust each other. Maybe naive of me but I’m a trusting kinda guy 
Well I don’t understand why would a family have same email (and trust one on that) and need separate user names.