How to manage users who don't have separate email addresses
Many systems now require unique individual emails for every login, which blocks administrators from setting up part-time staff who share distribution lists. This forces teams to either invent workaround accounts or abandon platforms that refuse to support shared access.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Using distribution lists instead of individual email addresses
- 2Relying on SSO and My Domain to minimize support impact
- 3clicking Login with Username on the login page
- 4navigating directly to the username login screen by appending ?login=1 to your login URL
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Are you using your email for more then 1 username login on developer orgs?”source ↗
grimview · r/salesforce · 25 upvotes
“Anyone else have mostly users without email addresses? Most of our users are part-time so they are setup with a distribution list as their email address.”source ↗
thefollows · r/salesforce · 9 upvotes
Where this came up
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