Bugzilla email confirmation notices from FAS

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Hi,

Today, I received an email from fas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with the subject
line "Fedora Account System: please verify your Bugzilla email
address". This email has a unique link to accounts.fedoraproject.org.

Based on the context, it seems legitimate. However, I noticed that
clicking the link will take you to a sign-in page asking for
credentials to your account. That seems strange to me, because it
already has a unique link that's associated with the verification of a
specific email in a specific FAS account, so asking for credentials
should be completely unnecessary here. Asking for credentials makes
this appear to be a phishing attempt, because that's how a phishing
email would behave (appearance of legitimacy, requesting credentials
when not needed).

I think the FAS developers should remove the requirement to sign-in
for these verification emails, to reduce the appearance/behavior of
phishing. The email itself says these emails are "To improve
security". If that is a goal, then Fedora systems should avoid
training users to supply credentials when not needed.

Thanks,
Christopher
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