Why Is Email Address Used To Authenticate A User?

General (non-technical) Testing Forum for Moderators / Admins
#1

In the Cloud API it states that every user needs a valid email address and it is specified along with password for the user to login. I am writing education games for children and was really looking forward to using Corona Cloud but it looks like I will not be able to use it because it insists that each user must have a valid email address. 

Most children in schools in the UK do not have email addresses that I would any case want to keep track of. I simply generate a username and password (with no email address) that I then want to register with Corona Cloud.

Is it possible for Corona Cloud to make email address information optional and base user authentication purely on registered username (like Parse SDK which I want to migrate from to Corona Cloud)?

This would be very helpful.

Errol.

#2

I’ll see if I can get someone from the cloud team to respond to this. 

#3

Hi Simon,

We are looking into how we can allow new user creation without an email, but in the mean let me suggest this workaround.

You can prompt your user to enter a UserName only and then you can auto create the email address under the hood.

I would suggest you do something like this: [appName]+[UserName]@gmail.com; where [appName]@gmail.com is an account you have already.

This way the user doesn’t need to enter an email and this would also allow you to recover passwords.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks

-Mohamed

#4

Good Q Errol, I am teaching gaming to secondary students in Australia and am having trouble getting the students to login past the schools proxy server so they can use corona for the app developemt sections of their course of study. I will keep an eye on this thread to see if there are any developments.

Thanks

Glenn

#5

Hi gforr5, is the issue you are facing related to Corona SDK or Corona Cloud?

-Mohamed

#6

Hi Mohamed

Logging into Corona SDK message comes that cant locate server. This means our school server is not allowing the connection. Access to internet is controlled by local and state (government) run servers.

Glenn

#7

I’ll see if I can get someone from the cloud team to respond to this. 

#8

Hi Simon,

We are looking into how we can allow new user creation without an email, but in the mean let me suggest this workaround.

You can prompt your user to enter a UserName only and then you can auto create the email address under the hood.

I would suggest you do something like this: [appName]+[UserName]@gmail.com; where [appName]@gmail.com is an account you have already.

This way the user doesn’t need to enter an email and this would also allow you to recover passwords.

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks

-Mohamed

#9

Good Q Errol, I am teaching gaming to secondary students in Australia and am having trouble getting the students to login past the schools proxy server so they can use corona for the app developemt sections of their course of study. I will keep an eye on this thread to see if there are any developments.

Thanks

Glenn

#10

Hi gforr5, is the issue you are facing related to Corona SDK or Corona Cloud?

-Mohamed

#11

Hi Mohamed

Logging into Corona SDK message comes that cant locate server. This means our school server is not allowing the connection. Access to internet is controlled by local and state (government) run servers.

Glenn