Allow looking up users by an email address

Looking up users by an email address is necessary for e.g. authentication mediator to work. This does not pose any greater privacy or security risk than the currently available APIs, since they already allow finding a user by their email address, albeit much slower (list all users, iterate over users, request emails; possible to optimise by first checking users with usernames similar to their email addresses).

Apparently this works:

$ osc api "/search/person?match=@email='hvogel@suse.com'"
<collection matches="1">
  <person>
    <login>hennevogel</login>
    <email>hvogel@suse.com</email>
    <realname>Hendrik Vogelsang</realname>
    <state>confirmed</state>
    <globalrole>Staff</globalrole>
  </person>
</collection>

Did you also submit this upstream?

Not yet.

https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/pull/11562

Nice could you add that reference in the commit message so we spot it when we do a future rebase :)

Right, the upstream 1) doesn’t like this idea in general, 2) points out this functionality already exists.

Closing.

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• b5b58e75 - Allow looking up users by an email address

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Tested:

$ osc --debug api '/person?email=andrew.shadura@collabora.co.uk'
GET https://obs-api/person?email=andrew.shadura@collabora.co.uk
<directory count="1">
  <entry name="andrewsh"/>
</directory>

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