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Started: 10/5/2009 8:20 PM
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DJ Liang
How accounts transfer to/from Live@Edu & Moodle?
So I got everything up and running - kinda - but I'm totally lost at how the Moodle and Live@Edu handle accounts. Here's what I've experienced: Input a user's Live@Edu account name into the MSN ID field of their Moodle account. The user can then click on the Live login on the moodle, enter their credentials, and get the message that their Windows Live ID has been linked with their moodle account. However, it then takes them back to the moodle login page and states "invalid user". The user then has two options: login with their original moodle login, or login with their Windows Live ID. The problem? When they log in with the Win ID, it treats them as a brand new user - which exactly what the moodle has done. When I go in as an admin, the moodle has created another user with their Win ID as the username (and authentication as [[auth_liveidtitle]]). From what I can see, it totally ignored the MSN ID in the original moodle account, and just created a fresh, separate account within moodle. Their original moodle account is also in no way linked with the LiveID. So my basic question is - how should I handle the account creation? Do I create them in Live@Edu first, and then somehow migrate to moodle? Or create them in moodle, and fill in the MSN ID field as the instructions say (but doesn't seem to work correctly)? Thanks in advance for any advice-
Posted: 10/7/2009 8:15 AM
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gshaw
That's an interesting one, I've not seen the Live block create users before, wish it would though as that's the standard behaviour when using another auth system such as LDAP...
 
On your test accounts did you set the authentication type to Live ID when creating the test user and adding the MSN ID? Otherwise it will authenticate via Live as the LiveID would be valid but Moodle would only be looking for manual database-type logins so I guess it would then fail on that side of it.
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