[OpenID] wiki discussion or here?

[Dick Hardt]

On 18-Apr-07, at 2:24 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:

> 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)

We had account login and OpenID login on same page but different forms.

We also found it useful to allow users to link other OpenIDs to the  
same account and to have a separate table for OpenIDs that linked the  
OpenID to an account, This allows you to now change existing table as  
well as allow multiple OpenIDs to the same account.

-- Dick