[mashup-dev] Re: WSO2 Mashup Server InfoCard support

[Ruchith Fernando]

Channa,

How about completely getting rid of setting the password in the sign-up 
using password option? This will allow clearer InfoCard and completely 
password less interaction.

If the user needs to login with a username/password pair he/she can 
follow the suggested approach.

Thanks,
Ruchith

Channa Gunawardena wrote:
> Hi Ruchith,
> 
> In addition to the new message, I would have to take off the password 
> validations and remove the asterisks from page to make passwords 
> optional, but it brings us back to the 
> EmailVerifier.requestUserVerification method which requires at least a 
> dummy password (say a UUID) to be provided where it expects a password. 
> This is still workable, as if the user ever wanted to login 
> conventionally, (s)he can use the 'forgot password' feature to get a  
> new password.
> 
> How does the message 'The password is optional if you will only use 
> InfoCard based authentication. Please note that the Mashup sharing 
> service does not currently support InfoCard authentication, so if you 
> wish to share Mashups, you will have to request an auto generated 
> password at that point' sound?
> 
> Bye,
> Channa.
> 
> Ruchith Fernando wrote:
>> Hi Channa,
>>
>> Before we ask him to try this can we do one more thing:
>>
>> When we sign-up using an info card we are quired to type in our 
>> password. Can we just add some text there to say this is just a an 
>> alternative option and that you don't need to use this password ever 
>> if you stick to the use of information cards.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ruchith
>>
> ********************************************
> Channa Gunawardena
> Technical Lead, WSO2 Inc.
> channa at wso2.com; Mobile: +94 71 306 2722
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