HI all,
Forgive my non IT wording/knowledge here, but I am looking at having someone install oauth2 on our site (2.7.2). In the plugin documentation it mentions that when new users use oauth2 a new Moodle account is set up. What happens with existing Moodle users? Are they able to use the plugin to link their Facebook or Google account to their current Moodle account?
Thanks.
Laine
Have this running on a couple of sites. It does create a new Moodle user.that follows 'pattern' like 'social_user_#' for the 'username'. For each new user the # increases. On sites where users already existed the user does end up with two accounts. Since EMail addresses are typically hidden and in most user pick list the account firstname and lastname are the only things shown for each user, one sees what appears to be duplicate accounts. Work-around for this ... ask the user to login via Google and then edit profile in Moodle (if allowed to do so) and add a (G) after the last name.
For the official response and more info, see:
https://github.com/mouneyrac/moodle-auth_googleoauth2/wiki
Another observation. User logs in using say Google+, does Moodle things, etc. and then signs out of Moodle. User is still logged onto Google.
'spirit of sharing', Ken
Thanks for your help Ken.
Hi Ken,
I'm using google authentication and can't find the way how to make username the same as email for new users. Is it possible to do so?
Thanks!
The plugin I use is:
https://moodle.org/plugins/auth_googleoauth2
It sets up usernames with 'social_user_#' where # is a number from 1 to whatever sequentially. The username nor email address isn't used to login to Moodle using the normal login box if authenticating vs Google ... one clicks on an image that begins the login process with Google ... which uses EMail address and that sends you back to the Moodle after authenticating.
'spirit of sharing', Ken
The reason I wanted to have username the same as emails is to make user upload easier. I'm enrolling students in multiple courses using user upload function and by default Moodle is using username as a user identifier, means that when I generate CSV file with a list of students and respective courses from our student management system I need to add Moodle usernames to that CSV file to be able to enroll students in courses in Moodle. So I thought if it's possible to make username the same as email then it will reduce the time on adding username from Moodle, because our student management system has only student emails as ID and cannot communicate with Moodle to get usernames.
Is there any other way of bulk enrollment to multiple courses where I can use email as user identifier?
In your server ...
http://yoursite/admin/settings.php?section=manageauths
There is a setting for
Allow log in via email authloginviaemai which has as a comment:
Allow users to use both username and email address (if unique) for site login.
However, if you are using the same plugin I am, it still might be possible to use a csv file from your student information system ... even if it doesn't use 'social_user_#' by manipulating the csv yourself.
Like I said the plugin I use gives those usernames sequentially ...
social_user_1
social_user_2
etc..
One could find the last social_user_# entered in the mdl_user table, and in the csv file you to use to import **new** students add a column in a spreadsheet app that concactates 'social_user_' with the next number sequentially beginning with the last number seen in the dump of the mdl_user table.
The problem stuff would be a student already enrolled in the moodle who had a name/info change in the SIS.
How 'flexible' is your SIS? Maybe a field could be added that matched the requirements for social_user_# where # is sequential.
Don't think there is an easy answer ... without some human manipulation. However, maybe if you study it a bit, you might come up with your own idea and run it by whoever runs your SIS.
'spirit of sharing', Ken
I too would like to be able to allow students to link their Facebook accounts to their existing Moodle accounts. Any news on this front over the past year? Thx
