Hello, I am trying to create multiple users with same email address and I am getting “An object with this field already exists” error. These users have unique usernames. I tried both with OKTA Admin UI and API. I also disabled self service registration as per this KB article - Okta Help Center (Li…

Hello, Users can have the same secondary email address, but the primary email needs to be unique.

Hi Erick, Thank you so much for taking time to reply to my question. So, even without self service registration, do we need to have unique primary emails (as per this KB article )? We are trying to setup two different accounts for the same user, so that we can use one for customer facing applicatio…

Thanks for the clarification. This helps.

That isn’t true. I have well over 50 Okta users in my instance all using the same primary email address. Our QA team has generated nearly 100 users using their email address as the primary address and have had no issues creating new users with the same primary email address. I’m posting this beca…

Most likely your org does not have the feature @erik is alluding to which is enabled when self-service registration is enabled in an Org. This allows the login/username and the primary email to differ.

Error while creating multiple users with same email - Unique username

Questions

erik February 4, 2021, 8:39pm 4

The secondary email address will receive emails as well

Do the primary email address of user need to be unique?

Post		Replies	Views
Do the primary email address of user need to be unique? SCIM	10	7848	June 17, 2021
Use one email address for multiple Okta accounts? Questions	3	5510	February 3, 2022
Creating users with same Email in Okta Questions	0	3939	August 18, 2020
Same Email for multiple account Questions	1	8425	February 15, 2018
How to generate unique email addresses Questions	5	4857	August 19, 2020

Error while creating multiple users with same email - Unique username

Related topics