[arch-general] Unificate login credentials in Arch's website

Ionuț Bîru ibiru at archlinux.org
Tue Aug 3 05:01:37 EDT 2010


On 08/03/2010 11:58 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 09:35, Dieter Plaetinck<dieter at plaetinck.be>  wrote:
>> On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 11:23:49 +0300
>> jesse jaara<jesse.jaara at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> 2010/8/3 Magnus Therning<magnus at therning.org>
>>>>
>>>> One way to solve it would be to add a fourth set of credentials :-)
>>>> For instance OpenID.
>>
>> I never understood why there is a need for openid when there are client
>> ssl certificates.  I never got why ssl client certs never took off.  But
>> maybe that's just me.
>
> Because it's a bit of a usability pain.  It works fine when the SSL
> cert is tied to a client *machine*, not so well when the SSL cert is
> tied to a *user*.
>
> /M
>

This was raised multiple times. But like the package signing none of 
this users _want_ to actually work on this.

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Ionuț


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