vimeo cul-de-sac

[Ben Clemens]

I got into a cul-de-sac today with vimeo facebook connect, and thought it
would be good to highlight the case so it can be avoided in openid
interaction.

I have a vimeo account, but wasn't signed-in to it. I wanted to try the
facebook sign-in, so I clicked the fb button, then got an overlay with prefs
to allow updates to facebook and the message that a vimeo account had been
created linked to my facebook account. So far so good.

There's no way on vimeo to link a different vimeo account to the new
facebook one, but I imagine they will take care of that at some point. What
got me was that when I wanted to remove the new facebook account I had
created (since it's useless to me), vimeo asked me to verify my password. I
hadn't created one, of course, so I was unable to remove the account. Since
I had already linked my facebook account with an account on vimeo, I
couldn't fix it afterwards either from my real vimeo account.

best,
Ben