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WSO2 products can be configured to authenticate users using their attributes such as email or mobile number instead of the username. This topic provides instructions on how to set up your WSO2 product to authenticate a users by using their email.

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You may be connected to an LDAP or Active Directory or maybe to a JDBC-based user store. So regardless of the user store manager being used, focus on the following set of configuration parameters of the user store managers.

Note

Note: If These properties have not been added by default for the JDBCUserStoreManager. Therefore, if you are using a JDBC-based user store, you need to add the following properties to the user-mgt.xml file under the relevant user store manager tag. For any other type of user store, simply modify the properties as listed below.

ParameterDescription
UserNameAttribute

For this you need to set mail attribute of the user.

Code Block
languagehtml/xml
<Property name="UserNameAttribute">mail</Property>
UserNameSearchFilter

For this you need to use the mail attribute of the user instead of cn or uid.

Code Block
languagehtml/xml
<Property name="UserNameSearchFilter">(&amp;(objectClass=identityPerson)(mail=?))</Property>
UserNameListFilter

For this you need to use the mail attribute of the user.

Code Block
languagehtml/xml
<Property name="UserNameListFilter">(&amp;(objectClass=identityPerson)(mail=*))</Property>
UserDNPattern

This parameter is used to speedup the LDAP search operations. You can comment out this config.

Code Block
languagehtml/xml
<!--Property name="UserDNPattern">cn={0},ou=Users,dc=wso2,dc=com</Property-->
UsernameJavaRegEx

This property enables you to add special characters like "@" in the user name.

Code Block
languagexml
<Property name="UsernameJavaRegEx">[a-zA-Z0-9@._-|//]{3,30}$</Property>
Realm configurations

The AdminUser username should use the email attribute of the admin user.

Code Block
languagehtml/xml
<AdminUser>
         <UserName>admin@wso2.com</UserName>
         <Password>admin</Password>
</AdminUser>

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