On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 23:46:41 -0300, Martín Cigorraga <martosurf7600@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't know if this was addressed before, I'm sorry to say this and you'll > probably hate me but it's something that get my attention: the > authentication in Arch's website is, at least, very unefficient. At worst, > it's directly against Arch's Way, I think (I'm not the best guy to say this, > just giving my first steps in Arch). Why should someone need to register at > least three times, one for the forums, one for the wiki and one for the AUR? > Shoudn't be sufficient with just one-time login/registration? And what about > editing own nick or password? You know, at any time you may want to uniform > all your passwords to a master one or just change it from the default you > get when registered. > > I would like to know if there's any specific reason to have three separate > accounts for the same website sections. > > Regards, > Martín In fact I already wrote a Plugin for MediaWiki to authenticate at the forums. I am using this at archlinux.de (yes, pretty simple and there is no ldap or whatever) So, enabling this at archlinux.org would just involve a small config change. However: the migration is most likely unsolvable. People might have registered different accounts on wiki or forums; or different people have registered the same account the first on the wiki the other one on the forums etc. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre
