http://localhost/ticket/1386 <p> Creation of accounts from OpenID causes large number of problems: </p> <ul><li>No guarantee of other profile info </li><li>Poor username (just from openid) </li></ul><p> We therefore will: </p> <ol><li>Require creation of user account via register (no auto-creation of accounts via openid) </li></ol><p> </p> <ol start="2"><li>Permit association of an openid with an account ... <ul><li>How: paste in your openid url (requires change to edit form to have this) <ul><li>won't work for google with their weird openid urls </li></ul></li><li>[future] Nicer way is to have login via openid while logged in (which association then happening in background) </li></ul></li></ol><ol start="3"><li>Migration (for 1+2): <ul><li>(?) Generate decent usernames for all existing accounts </li><li>As this is nontrivial suggest instead we allow editing of usernames (by account owner and sysadmins). This is useful in its own right and is a reasonable 80/20 solution. </li></ul></li></ol><ol start="4"><li>Change display_name to always be username <ul><li>Change My Account to Username at top right of all pages (once we know usernames are short ...) <ul><li>could do this straight away by truncating long usernames (e.g. truncate at 20 chars ...) </li><li>Also should we lose the icon? </li></ul></li></ul></li></ol> en-us http://assets.okfn.org/p/ckan/img/ckan_logo_shortname.png http://localhost/ticket/1386 Trac 0.12.3 rgrp Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:39:30 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1386#comment:1 http://localhost/ticket/1386#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>description</strong> modified (<a href="/ticket/1386?action=diff&amp;version=1">diff</a>) </li> </ul> Ticket rgrp Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:39:51 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1386#comment:2 http://localhost/ticket/1386#comment:2 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> changed from <em>new</em> to <em>closed</em> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> set to <em>fixed</em> </li> <li><strong>component</strong> changed from <em>ckan</em> to <em>vdm</em> </li> </ul> <p> Fixed in <a class="ext-link" href="https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckan/changeset/130cad62163c"><span class="icon">​</span>https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckan/changeset/130cad62163c</a> </p> Ticket rgrp Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:26:11 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1386#comment:3 http://localhost/ticket/1386#comment:3 <ul> <li><strong>description</strong> modified (<a href="/ticket/1386?action=diff&amp;version=3">diff</a>) </li> <li><strong>milestone</strong> changed from <em>ckan-sprint-2011-10-24</em> to <em>ckan-v1.6</em> </li> </ul> Ticket rgrp Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:27:11 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1386#comment:4 http://localhost/ticket/1386#comment:4 <ul> <li><strong>description</strong> modified (<a href="/ticket/1386?action=diff&amp;version=4">diff</a>) </li> <li><strong>milestone</strong> changed from <em>ckan-v1.6</em> to <em>ckan-sprint-2011-10-24</em> </li> </ul> <p> See <a class="new ticket" href="http://localhost/ticket/1534" title="enhancement: Change revisions to record userid rather than username (new)">#1534</a> for remaining work to ensure that when usernames get changed connection with activity is not lost. </p> Ticket dread Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:02:10 GMT http://localhost/ticket/1386#comment:5 http://localhost/ticket/1386#comment:5 <p> These changes go into release v1.5.1. </p> Ticket