[OpenID] OpenID consumers should make it clear if they are going to publish a user's OpenID

[Dmitry Shechtman]

>
> When I went to login to http://openid.phpbb.cc/openid/login, that page
> came up blank. Something must be wrong w/ the library and delegated
> OpenIDs...


Yeah, there probably is. I didn't get to fixing that since the Drupal module
wasn't my top priority. Have you used your MyOpenID identifier, it would've
worked (asking you to provide a username and an email address if required).

When I logged into http://test2.phpbb.cc/ I set my remote profile to
> use "damnian" as my name and nickname, so that the details provided by
> SR would overlap with an existing username.
>
> What happened? I got to be damnian3!


Guess what. That's the intended behavior!

So, clearly there's a behavior set to grab my nickname from SR and
> then increment it if it already exists. This is what I was asking
> about -- what to do when nicknames overlap on a system... this is one
> answer. Is this satisfactory and should it be made a recommend default
> behavior in the case of not publicly displaying one's OpenID URL?


If there is no SR nickname, the username is guessed from the URL (e.g.
factoryjoe if you weren't so smart ;-)

I believe this to be satisfactory for most purposes. The recommended default
behavior would probably be combining that module's with phpbb-openid's,
which is what Evan Prodromou did (or at least intended to do) in
his Mediawiki patch.


Regards,
Dmitry
=damnian
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