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    allow autoatic mergeing of users with matching email addresses · 09ec375f
    Dr Adam Thorn authored
    This is flagged as a security risk, but that's very much dependent upon
    the site config. We trust that if Entra claims a user has an email
    address of user@cam.ac.uk, they this is unquestionably true. (The
    warnings all concern cases where you can't necessarily trust this
    attribute)
    
    The use cases I have for doing this include:
    
    - being able to proactively set node ownership when doing a site import
      (we need user accounts to exist if they are to own content)
    - for content like staff pages we make use of the "can edit own content"
      permission. Although in principle we could implement a custom
      permission check (e.g. compare field_person_crsid to
      $current_user->getUsername() ) that feels like a bad strategy.
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