get crowd token key using users email address

Question

I am making rest call to get crowd token key like "/session?validate-password=false" as part of body I am passing user's username. However my requirement is like this:

I have two applications and the same person uses them with different username but the email address is same. So I am looking for a way to get crowd token key using users email address to authenticate user to Jira.

Please suggest a solution.

Bruno Vincent · Accepted Answer

I think you should take it the other way round. The person you are talking about should have one account in Crowd, the username being his email address (e.g. john.doe@example.com) and aliases for the two applications (e.g. jdoe for application 1 and john for application 2). Thus you could pass the email address in your request's body and the user could use different login names on the two applications.