I agree with Vassil. If I remember correctly, users created via OpenID had their openid urls as their user ids which messed up our UI.
The one idea I had was to add the OpenID to the sign-up page and created a JIRA item for this. I looked at the code in the ProfileMgr that dealt with this in the profile and decided that adding the openID to the sign-on page was non-trivial and thus placed the jira item in the backlog. On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Vassil Dichev <[email protected]> wrote: > > And my question still remains the same ;-) > > Should we use time on this right now, or would it be easier to remove the > field in the UI for now? > > Sorry for not following up on this: I had the impression that OpenID > worked as intended and the user is not supposed to create a user > through OpenID. This would mean that the username would be > autogenerated and currently you cannot edit the username. This is not > a hard requirement, but do we want to make the username editable? It > might make some implications for using existing pools, actions, etc. > (not that they're bound to the username, but an attacker might use it > for phishing/social engineering). > > Another drawback of OpenID user auto-creation is that a user will not > have a password initially, and might not ever choose to set it. I'm > not sure this is desirable, considering that OpenID might not always > be available and there's no other way to log in. > Good point - the necessity of having two logins is feature :-> > Finally, from usability point of view if you think you have associated > an OpenID URL with an existing account, but you're not, then logging > in with OpenID will create a new account you do not want. This is > especially tricky considering that we treat these as different URLs: > > http://host/path/ > http://host/path/index.html > http://host.domain.com/path/ > > So is OpenID actually broken? If it's not, there's no point in fixing it. > I also agree with Anne that in the long-term, we will probably have container-based authentication, so investing more time in OpenID probably isn't ideal. > > Vassil >
