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WebSession: enforce external user identifiers

Authored by Samuele Kaplun <samuele.kaplun@cern.ch> on Feb 26 2011, 05:40.

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WebSession: enforce external user identifiers

  • When using external authentication systems, the email address (which is internally used in Invenio as identifier) might not correspond with what is the external identifier (and externally the user might change his email address while still being identified by the same arbitrary identifier). External identifiers are now enforced and smart algorithms are in place to solve potential conflicts when a user is using more than one authentication system or when he changes his email address. (closes #424)
  • Changes external_authentication plugin API to support external identifiers.
  • Supports merging two user accounts that happened to be distinguished but are discovered to be corresponding to the same user because of an identical email address being associated to both.

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Tibor Simko <tibor.simko@cern.ch>Aug 20 2012, 15:08
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R3600:a88be6f2b061: global: uniformize user-agent header usage
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Tibor Simko <tibor.simko@cern.ch> committed R3600:bb52827c8bad: WebSession: enforce external user identifiers (authored by Samuele Kaplun <samuele.kaplun@cern.ch>).Aug 20 2012, 15:08