Possibility to login using email address

[fateeand]

Let's consider a possibility to use email address in addition to abnumber

[TheLydonKing]

I have done some investigation into this:

• This is possible by a simple change of the config: The search-filter under the Ldap section should use (|(samaccountname={1})(mail={1})) instead of (samaccountname={1}) This will make your ldap search with both the account name and mail name.
• In our organisation however, Accounts are not searchable via email. This is due to how admins have setup the Active Directory. So it is not possible to do so with code changes in our situation unless we get admins to change it on their side.
• If you are using this project but your org does allow search via mail, then the above config change will be the solution if you want to use both usernames and email to login.