Use a non-email login¶ ↑

Rodauth’s by default uses email addresses for identifying users, since that is the most common form of identifier currently. In some cases, you might want to allow logging in via alternative identifiers, such as a username. In this case, it is best to choose a different column name for the login, such as :username. Among other things, this also makes it so that the login field does not expect an email address to be provided.

plugin :rodauth do
  enable :login, :logout
  login_column :username
end

Note that Rodauth features that require sending email need an email address, and that defaults to the value of the login column. If you have both a username and an email for an account, you can have the login column be the user, and use the value of the email colummn for the email address.

plugin :rodauth do
  enable :login, :logout, :reset_password

  login_column :username
  email_to do
    account[:email]
  end
end

An alternative approach would be to accept a login and automatically change it to an email address. If you have a username field on the accounts table, then you can configure Rodauth to allow entering a username instead of email during login. See the Adding new registration field guide for instructions on requiring add an additional field during registration.

plugin :rodauth do
  enable :login, :logout

  account_from_login do |login|
    # handle the case when login parameter is a username
    unless login.include?("@")
      login = db[:accounts].where(username: login).get(:email)
    end

    super(login)
  end
end