When you want to associate multiple domains into the same profile, using just the password isn't enough, since we'd have to ensure any password that's previously used (and isn't *your* profile) isn't duplicated.
And for security reasons, if we use just domain/password, there's already one public piece of information for access to the domain. With a username it's a higher level of security (through obscurity) Charles Daminato OpenSRS Product Manager Tucows Inc. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Fagyal Csongor > Sent: March 13, 2002 9:44 AM > To: Frank Michlick; klaus rubba; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: reg_username and reg_password > > > > > > Klaus, > > > > the username/password are not unique, the domain name is the unique > identifier > > used in our systems. So the same username can be used several times on > different > Why is there a password then, if profiles are made of > domain/username/password triples? > > Please show me an example where a domain/password pair is not enough. > > - Cs. > > >
