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[Robert Lyon <robertl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

When Mahara sends out an email to a user it often has a link to Mahara
content for them to follow.

If they are not logged in but need to be to see the content it gives
them a login box to login with.

If the user is logged out and can only authentication via an external
source it can be confusing for them. Some external authentication
methods, like SAML, will show an SSO button on the login box to use, but
other authentication methods, LTI, will not show any special info on
login box so a user has no idea they need to login to their external
site first and then 'jump' across to Mahara.

It would be good to add to the base of email messages for these users
some information mentioning how they need to ignore the
username/password fields on the login box and actually login via the
external source first, eg for SAML to hit the SSO button, for LTI, to
login to their LTI parent site

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: Wishlist
         Status: New

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1856261

Title:
  When a user has only external authentication the links in emails can
  be confusing

Status in Mahara:
  New

Bug description:
  When Mahara sends out an email to a user it often has a link to Mahara
  content for them to follow.

  If they are not logged in but need to be to see the content it gives
  them a login box to login with.

  If the user is logged out and can only authentication via an external
  source it can be confusing for them. Some external authentication
  methods, like SAML, will show an SSO button on the login box to use,
  but other authentication methods, LTI, will not show any special info
  on login box so a user has no idea they need to login to their
  external site first and then 'jump' across to Mahara.

  It would be good to add to the base of email messages for these users
  some information mentioning how they need to ignore the
  username/password fields on the login box and actually login via the
  external source first, eg for SAML to hit the SSO button, for LTI, to
  login to their LTI parent site

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