[OpenID] allowing users to switch to opendid-only: pointless?

[Nicolas Holzapfel]

Hello everyone,

I'm in the processing of designing a big social networking type site and was
just dealing with the account management settings. I'm working with someone
else and we both want to make the site as openid-friendly as possible. Users
will be able to sign up and log in using openid and similar services like
Facebook Connect, Google Connect etc and associate multiple external website
with the same account (i.e. they can use myOpenID, Facebook Connect and
their site-specific username/password to log into the same, single account).

In addition, I proposed allowing users who originally signed up with a
site-specific username/password, then associated their account with (for
example) a myOpenID account, to delete their original site-specific password
so that they would only be able to log in with myOpenID. To me, this makes
sense because the user then has one less password to worry about and keep
track of. However, to my co-designer, only crazy people would want such a
feature since the user can just stop using their original password if they
wish.

I would be very interested in knowing what you lot think about this.


Nicolas
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