LDAP login in Frappe: Multiple users share same email, can we use Employee ID as User ID?

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Hi everyone,
I’m planning to implement LDAP authentication in Frappe.

In my case, multiple employees can have the same email ID (shared/group email), so using email as a unique identifier won’t work.

I want to maintain users using Employee ID instead of email.
But in Frappe, by default the User doctype uses email as the unique key.

My questions:

  1. Is it safe to change Frappe to use emp_id as the user identifier instead of email?

  2. Will it break anything like:

    • login/auth

    • password reset

    • email notifications

    • user permissions / assignments

    • integrations

  3. What is the best recommended approach to achieve this with LDAP?

If anyone has implemented LDAP with similar constraints, please guide me.
Thanks in advance!