Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of OpenId

Timestamp:

Jun 30, 2011, 11:59:17 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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OpenId

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 = Support for OpenID =
 
-The goal is to let users attach to projects using OpenID.
+The goal is to let people use OpenID to attach and log in to BOINC projects.
 
-== Interface ==
+There are now two types of accounts on a given BOINC project:
+
+ * those authenticated with a project-specific password; a password hash is stored in the DB.
+ * those authenticated via an OpenID provider; the provider URL is stored in the DB.
+
+In both cases, an email address uniquely identifies the account;
+OpenID can be used only with providers who return an email address and a name.
+
+== Web interface ==
+
+The Login page will show links to various OpenID providers
+as well as an email/password form.
+
+NOTE: logging in with OpenID automatically creates an account
+if no account with that email address exists.
+If an account does exist, its name and country fields are overwritten with
+data supplied by the OpenID provider, if any.
+
+On the Your Account page, instead of "change email address" and "change password" links,
+there will be a "change login information" link.
+This will go to a page that:
+
+ * lets an OpenID account change to a different OpenID
+ * lets an OpenID account change to an email/password account
+ * lets an email/password account change to an OpenID account
+
+On the "change other account info" page, OpenID accounts will not be
+able to edit their user name; this comes from the OpenID provider.
+
+== Manager interface ==
 
  * On the "identify your account" page of the Attach Project wizard,