Chris Steipp wrote:
Accounts are kinda namespaced, so github user foo and sul user foo can both have phabricator accounts.
Since we're using OAuth though, that requires a global wiki account so local only accounts would not be able to join. So we probably need password or LDAP auth at minimum.
I suppose you could rely only on global (in the CentralAuth extension sense) accounts, but it really would make sense for Wikimedia to get its own house in order first: we should finish fully unifying login across Wikimedia wikis before delving into concurrent authentication systems.
I think this mailing list thread suffers from an analysis of what the potential negative consequences of allowing third-party login are. The positive to users (one less username and password to remember) is clearer to see. What are the drawbacks of doing this? I'd like to see the pros and cons outlined on mediawiki.org or meta.wikimedia.org.
Greg Grossmeier wrote:
You can. You can "claim" other accounts in Phab.
What's Phab?
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