Github Logging in issue

Yes, we try not to trample or link to existing accounts with the same email addresses. If interested, you can also check your 'Automatically Link Users by Email' setting in JFBConnect backend > Configuration > General area to see if toggling it to 'Yes' will help map the accounts better for pre-existing users. It sounds as if you've gotten around the issue, so let us know if you continue to have any more problems.

-Melissa

The main problem here is that the automatic linking of accounts with the same Joomla and social network email address isn't working. That's the main way that this problem resolves itself.

Have you tested other social network accounts and do they get properly automatically linked if the email address is the same? That will help us narrow down where to focus (Github integration specifically or that setting in general).

The only other option I can suggest, though even I don't think it's a good one, is putting a Forgot Password link on the Login section of our page asking the user to link accounts. Forgot Password should set the user up with a password.. I think. That's a pretty ugly solution though, so obviously want to focus on getting accounts to link properly the first time.

Thanks,
Alex

Alright.. reading up a bit more on Github's Authentication flow and they've actually changed their permission model a little bit. Right now, we request no permissions from the user, which by default gives access to:

Grants read-only access to public information (includes public user profile info, public repository info, and gists)

If the user from Github hasn't set a public email address, then Github would not return any email address when they register and JFBConnect wouldn't be able to automatically connect the user to their Joomla account.

It looks like they've added a new scope for user:email which lets us see all email addresses for the user, even if they aren't public. We'll have to do some testing with this, but my guess is that should let you get the same email address as your previous solution.

Give us a day or so and we should have an answer for you soon on the code change required.

Thanks,
Alex

I just wanted to note that I think I have a solution for this checked in for the next 7.0.3 release. When I set the 'Don't show my email address' setting in my Github profile, with this code change, the email address can still be retrieved properly. The user will be required to grant JFBConnect permissions to retrieve the full user info now, but there's no way around that. This scope has been around for awhile, but I found a different endpoint in the API that is needed to retrieve the email addresses.

I still need to do some more testing, but I think it's looking good.

-Melissa