[OSM-talk] Revert requests in general

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Thu Aug 5 20:58:36 BST 2010


On 05/08/10 20:35, David Earl wrote:

> Are you going to take the email address on trust? It is really very easy
> to set up an OpenID provider which supplies any old email address on
> request. (There are some I think you can trust in principle - we know
> for example that Google and Yahoo provide verified email addresses, but
> in general I think it needs the round trip with the verification link in
> the email to be trustworthy).

I assume it still verifies it, but Kai is the expert.

> Also, are you able to link OpenID logins together and with existing OSM
> accounts (i.e. keeping login identity separate from OSM identity and
> allowing OSM identities to have multiple ways of logging in)?

Currently it only allows one openid per account, but you can still have 
a password as well and use that if you want.

Tom

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