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

[Eric Norman]

On May 28, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Nicolas Holzapfel wrote:

> 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.

If you take this so far that I am required to discard an alternate
method of getting to a service I might want, I'll say "No thank you".