Title: Ticket #15942 – Username vs. Email for I…
Author: Jen
Published: January 6, 2011
Last modified: March 29, 2011

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 [  ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/) [Jen](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jenmylo/)
1:58 pm _on_ January 6, 2011     
Tags: [admin ( 5 )](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/admin/),
email, [multisite ( 2 )](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/multisite/), settings,
[trac ( 14 )](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/trac/), username, users   

# Ticket #15942 – Username vs. Email for I…

[Ticket #15942](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/15942) – Username vs. Email
for Identifying Users

**Reported Problem: **“When I create a new blog in a network, I am asked to enter
the **Admin Email**. This is rather useless to me because all our accounts come 
from an LDAP directory. So I have to remember the site admin’s email address, which
is not always consistent across my organization. It would be nicer if I had an autocomplete-
style field where I could enter the user’s ID.”

The issues of selecting existing users vs. adding new users and doing so by email
address vs. username touches more admin interactions than just this one. We’ll need
to address it as a whole rather than just focusing on this one person’s complaint,
but using this ticket as a starting point for discussion.

[#admin](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/admin/), [#email](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/email/),
[#multisite](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/multisite/), [#settings](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/settings/),
[#trac](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/trac/), [#username](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/username/),
[#users](https://make.wordpress.org/design/tag/users/)

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