https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28747

Krinkle <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |[email protected]
            Summary|AntiSpoof and CentralAuth   |AntiSpoof should also check
                   |should be friends           |global accouns from
                   |                            |CentralAuth

--- Comment #3 from Krinkle <[email protected]> 2011-05-01 13:06:30 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> AntiSpoof does not work with CentralAuth currently.
> 
> This could work on two ways: by blocking the account autocreation if there's a
> local account with similar name, or by blocking registration if there is a
> similarly named global account.
> 
> I think the later is preferable.

Changed bugsummary accordingly


(In reply to comment #2)
> not). On a short username like mine, a change of a character is easily noticed
> but if the username has 15+ characters or if the username is complicated, many
> people will not notice the change, so it would probably be good if AntiSpoof
> checked how much the new username has in common with existing ones.

I'm not sure how valid this request is (even just FoobarLand and FoobarBand are
very different imho), but you could request this, as a seperate bug.

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