[OpenID] wiki discussion or here?

Johannes Berg johannes at sipsolutions.net
Wed Apr 18 09:24:59 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 17:05 -0400, Terrell Russell wrote:

> The 'connecting' to existing accounts with OpenID(s) should definitely 
> be a separate action - done in the 'account' area in an app.  If nothing 
> else, it allows for more specific, helpful error messages when things go 
> wrong.

My thoughts exactly.

> I suggest that OpenID field should take priority, if the OpenID AND 
> login/pass are all provided by the user.
> 
> Other alternatives include:
> 1) client-side prevention of both having values on 'submit'
> 2) alert/error after the submit saying 'pick one, not both'
> 3) the login/pass combo takes priority

Right. The app where I'm currently implementing it allows priority
either way depending on the configuration (the order in which auth
methods are tried)

johannes
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