Status of OpenID Consumer in Bugzilla

Jake jake at bugzilla.org
Fri Jul 1 22:39:02 UTC 2005


On Fri, July 1, 2005 4:40 pm, Rob Lanphier wrote:
> Hey, whaddya know!  :)  I saw that the standard new account creation
> mechanism just pushed out a password rather than a login token, so I just
> assumed that there wasn't a token mechanism.
>
> Any philosophical reason why Token isn't used for new account creation,
> or is it just a bit of cleanup that's always been below the cut line?

I remember asking that question once before myself, but I don't remember
what, if anything, the answer was. But I agree that using the tokens would
be better than email a password in almost every case I can think of.



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