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UFMatch provides the glue between the CMS and CiviCRM. But what does it match on?

I'm assuming it is on first name, last name, email. Is this correct?

My issue is that I've got an existing Joomla site and am trying to integrate it with CiviCRM via my authentication plugin. The problem I've got is this:

                    Joomla                   CiviCRM
firstname        Jon                       Jonathan
lastname         Doe                      Doe
email              jdoe@email.com      jdoe@email.com

This isn't going to match isn't it?

So I got  to look for all the joomla users that don't have a match in the civicrm_uf_match table and manually update there details in the Joomla user table. (Unless someone else has a better idea).

so what happens if two individual contacts use the same email address?
(I have a few of these - usually joint members in one household)

RogerCO