On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 08:30, Pierre Schmitz <pierre@archlinux.de> wrote:
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 23:46:41 -0300, Martín Cigorraga <martosurf7600@gmail.com> 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