Account merging will be done based on e-mails (as you can set your password
based on emails) because you can't compare passwords (due to the salt). The
merging by password will be done if your local and global account have the
same password when you login. Not really automatic. See the evil-plans for
more info.
"Erik Moeller" wrote:
On 6/28/06, Phil Boswell wrote:
But to add the email you had to have known the
password, and unless I'm
sorely mistaken it is possible to recover the email address for an
automated
process to compare between two accounts, whereas if this were true for
passwords...
Having confirmed e-mail addresses for all your accounts is definitely
going to make migration easier, but we're only ever going to get that
for a subset of accounts. If your accounts use the same password, the
merging of old accounts into the global system can be done
transparently for the user at login time.
Now, it's always good to talk about single login strategies, because
that will hopefully guilt trip Brion into finishing the implementation
;-). But I think it's a separate issue from the e-mail upload
confirmation problem.
Erik