Status of OpenID Consumer in Bugzilla

timeless timeless at myrealbox.com
Sat Jul 2 00:02:20 UTC 2005


On Fri, July 1, 2005 4:40 pm, Rob Lanphier wrote:
> 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?

Jake wrote:
> 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.

afaik tokens were introduced and no one ported new accounts to use them.

note that we really do want to switch because it will stop bugzilla's 
user account list from being bloated by accounts that can't exist.



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