[geeklog-devtalk] Remote Authentication ;-)

[Dirk Haun]

Vinny,


>1. mynameismike1234-5678 logs in (via authentication), he gets a

>unique uid of 6, his username for the geeklog site is

>mynameismike1234 at blogger.com

>2. mynameismike1234-5678 logsout

>2. mynameismike1234-8765 logs in (via authentication), the system sees

>that his username matches mynameismike1234 at blogger.com who already has

>an account established.


Sorry, forgot to point out one detail: Of course we have to store the
other site's username somewhere (Mike's implementation actually does
that) so that we can tell them apart.

I just don't want to use that (possibly very long) name as the username
in Geeklog, since we use Geeklog's username as the display name in so
many places.



>Also, all this brings up the question: shouldn't usernames be unique? 

>Two people can't share the same username (how would they log in?).


Two Geeklog users can't share the same username, since we couldn't tell
them apart at login. But the two mikes from your above example could.

bye, Dirk


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