On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 08:30, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. One way to solve it would be to add a fourth set of credentials :-) For instance OpenID. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus ; identi.ca|twitter: magthe
