It works with Meteor version >= 0.8.2

meteor-accounts-profile-fields

Smart package for Meteor framework.

Provides function for Meteor framework to log in using "username" stored in specified profile fields. Could be used as a replacement for loginWithPassword() function.

Requirements

accounts-profile-fields needs to be installed with accounts-base package.

So, at first you need to install it by: meteor add accounts-base

Add Package

meteor add accounts-profile-fields

Example

In example below login name 'ABC123456' is checked against fields: ['profile.register_plate', 'profile.phone_number', 'username', 'emails.email'] from 'users' collection. At first are checked fields from 'profile'.

on server

Define in file settings.json fields used to find user, for example:

{
  "login_with_profile_fields": ["register_plate","phone"]
}

on client

var login = 'ABC123456';
var password = '123456';

Meteor.loginWithProfileField(login, password, function(err) {
  if(Meteor.loggingIn()) {
    console.log("logging in...");
  } else {
    if(err) {
      console.log("log.err= " + err);
    } else {
      console.log("loggged in!");
    }
  }
});

run app with settings.json

meteor --settings=settings.json