Users - required fields only for frontend registration?

[torf]

I have a page that has frontend and backend users. So frontend users register themself via the old Login/Register module and get assigned a special guest role, while backend users are made by the site-admin in backend. My problem is that frontend users have a lot of required fields (from name, phone number and address up to specific company information), while backend only need login, email, password and their role. If I mark all those extra fields as required, the site admin would have to fill them out in the backend as well when adding a new user.

Is there any hook for adding the required status of those extra fields only in the frontend? Or seperate frontend and backend users in another way?

[BillH]

Perhaps the easiest thing to do would be to make the fields of the user-facing form required, perhaps using JavaScript, or adding the required attribute:

<input type="text" id="role" name="role" required>

If you want to hook into the module, take a look at https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/LoginRegister. If all else fails, hooking before Inputfield::render (see the example on the page just mentioned) and then replacing strings in the form HTML is an option.