Usermapping only - No user creation

This post was asked in another thread by Corsulian:

This might be against the grain but...

What is the potential for a version that only focuses on the authentication? I have several sites that do not support open registration. That is, only known members of an organization are permitted to be registered. I would specifically not want any sort of user creation mechanism - the only thing I'd look for is the authentication piece so that someone registered could log in with Facebook credentials.

After the next release, we'll be looking for new features to add. We always have a list going, but if this thread gets traction (like the CB one did), we'll investigate more. If it's a 10 minute feature, we'll do it at some point anyways.

Mainly, I think you're saying, you'd like for the usermapping portion to be there, but only users that have an account could click the "Connect" button and 'map' FB to whatever account they're currently using.

Currently, if you were to set the JFBCLogin module to only show to registered users, you'd be able to let your current users map their accounts. Unfortunately, if they log out, they wouldn't see the Login button when they came back (and not able to login through FB). I would think adding the logic to say "Login through FB IF the account is already mapped to a Joomla user" wouldn't be too bad.

Let me know if this is what you're looking for. The above would NOT import any data into JomSocial or Community Builder since we only do that during account creation. Problems with that?

If I can tell them, "don't worry about remembering how to log in - just use your Facebook account," then that simplifies things.

That's the purpose of setting "Create New Users" to no is to allow users to only log in through Facebook and not even have a joomla username and password... not sure if anyone uses that feature though

We'll look into your request some more. Again, don't think it will be in this upcoming release, but think it's a pretty easy implementation for adding a "Only allow user mapping" config option or something like that so your users couldn't create accounts, just link them.

Thanks for the suggestion.