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Opened 17 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
#9563 closed defect (bug) (fixed)
unique email is not enforced
| Reported by: | Denis-de-Bernardy | Owned by: | Nicholas91 |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 2.8 |
| Component: | General | Version: | 2.8 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | has-patch tested |
| Cc: | Focuses: |
Description
When you create (or edit) a user in the admin area, email uniqueness is not enforced. See also: #1626
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Change History (10)
#7
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17 years ago
Tricky... I'm pretty certain it's extremely rare, though, due to the fact that the registration form has always enforced this. Only an admin could possibly create a user with a dup email, and that was more of a bug than anything else.
Imo we leave things as they are and let the rare admins that have dup users delete them -- WP does a good job at merging a user into another one when a user gets deleted.
#8
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16 years ago
- Cc added
- Resolution fixed
- Status closed → reopened
I'm reopening this because it introduces a regression.
While the initial intent (not allowing multiple user registration) is reasonable, it introduces a problem as follows:
- Set up WP
- An admin user is created
- User's email is set to my email address
- I want my posts to show up as from me.
- So I create a new user (me) with my address.
Before this fix, this worked. After this fix, it stopped working. So, today, when I did a fresh install, I had to enter a bogus email and then change it in the DB backend.
Another option would be to be able to change the default admin account's username, but that can be problematic - better to just allow the creation of multiple accounts with the same address from the admin panel (perhaps with warning).
the patch also makes the error codes consistent with those from the registration form.