Ah, OK. Sounds reasonable to me. - Dave

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 12:08 AM, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote:

> No, I expect there to still be hybrid (as an admin setting allowing users
> a choice), it's just you can't create, for a single new user account,
> multiple authentication methods for it; some new users may choose OpenID
> and some may choose username/password, but not both.
>
> Glen
>
>
> On 08/17/2013 10:51 AM, Dave wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> I think hybrid is a nice feature, but not required. I'll be happy to have
>> any form of OpenID working in Roller. If somebody needs hybrid they can do
>> the work to bring it back.
>>
>> - Dave
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Glen Mazza <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>  Team, as mentioned earlier, I plant to start looking at the OpenID in
>>> Roller again.  As you may recall, the Roller config file allows new user
>>> accounts with "no" OpenID, "only" OpenID, or "hybrid" -- either OpenID
>>> and/or password.  I'd like to change that "and/or" to just an "or":
>>>  Right
>>> now, for the new user signup screen under hybrid we allow new accounts to
>>> be created with *both* a username/password and an OpenID to access that
>>> account.
>>>
>>> What I'm proposing, for any new user account under hybrid, that there be
>>> one and only one authentication mechanism (username/password *or* OpenID
>>> *or* whatever else comes up in the future).  It's fully the user's choice
>>> (there will be radio buttons to choose the one desired), but he or she
>>> can
>>> only choose one.  If someone has a theoretical need for both a
>>> username/password *and* OpenID (I don't see why), that person would
>>> create
>>> two accounts instead, and just allow the second account admin rights on
>>> the
>>> blogs created by the first account.  Such a change would keep Roller in
>>> line with StackOverflow, Yahoo! Groups, and Flickr, that, while providing
>>> an OpenID option, still have just one authentication mechanism per
>>> account.
>>>
>>> It sounds sweet and helpful to allow multiple ways to log into the same
>>> account, but as you expand the number of authentication options you end
>>> up
>>> introducing unnecessary code complexity and potential security holes
>>> while
>>> not providing much additional utility to users.   WDYT?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Glen
>>>
>>>
>

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