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authorSimon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>2015-05-27 08:52:01 +0100
committerSimon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>2015-05-27 08:52:01 +0100
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Do not directly enable emailauth by default, only indirectly via openid
This avoids nasty surprises on upgrade if a site is using httpauth, or passwordauth with an account_creation_password, and relying on only a select group of users being able to edit the site. We can revisit this for ikiwiki 4.
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@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ This plugin lets users log into ikiwiki using any email address. To complete
the login, a one-time-use link is emailed to the user, and they can simply
open that link in their browser.
-It is enabled by default, but can be turned off if you want to only use
-some other form of authentication, such as [[passwordauth]] or [[openid]].
+It is (indirectly) enabled by default, but can be turned off if you want to
+only use some other form of authentication, such as [[passwordauth]] or
+[[openid]].
Users who have logged in using emailauth will have their email address used as
their username. In places where the username is displayed, like the