Satish, This is totally irrelevant to the discussion.
Barry On Feb 10, 2012, at 6:43 PM, Satish Balay wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Satish Balay wrote: > >> On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Barry Smith wrote: >> >>> I am totally confused. Why can I use my BarryFSmith account to admin >>> repositories people make and push and pull repositories but suddenly when I >>> want to have admin at the petsc level I need to use this other "openid" >>> thing?????? Why, why why? >> >> >> Hmm openid is orthongonal. As I understand things - its just a >> machanism to not maintain yet-another-passwd-for-yet-another-site. >> >> [i.e setup openid with any openid provider. and then user this >> credential to login to accounts at 10 different sites. Obviously each >> site will track you as a different user - so they like to give you a >> user name]. >> >> But you can ignore this - and do a userid/passwd just for bitbucket. > > Should have added - if you've created 'BarryFSmith' account on > bitbucket using some openid account [for ex: your google account] - > then thats the authentication bitbucket will probably ask for - > whenever it need to autheticate you. > > > For ex: I created a regular account with a new passwd with bitbucket. > userid: balay > passwd: psswd > > So it will provide bitbucket.org/balay/repo to me. For authentication > I just use the above userid/passwd. > > If you've crated an account 'BarryFSmith' using an openid - say > bfsmith at google.com - with [google-passwd] - then it will provide > bitbucket.org/barryfsmith/repo. But for authetication - it will > always prompt you for the google-id and google-passwd > > > Satish > >> >> The model is: >> >> you have an 'account' - and can create repos there. Now you are the >> owner of the repos. >> >> Then you can give 'admin' privilidges to other 'account' users on any >> given repo. And also create groups to give read/write permissions >> etc.. >> >> So they have this distinction of 'owner' vs 'admin' [and I think only >> owner can delete repos] >> >> Satish >> >
