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Re: Salsa as authentication provider for Debian



On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 10:04:55AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 08 apr 20, 19:40:27, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr  8, 2020 at 14:30:43 +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Zhu
> > > 
> > > On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 07:50:22PM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> > > > 1. Can you still keep the "-guest" enforcement, so it's still easy to
> > > > recognize who is DD or not on salsa?
> > > 
> > > No.  The guest suffix was meant to avoid collisions with Debian
> > > accounts.  And the tool used to enforce it is unmaintained.
> > > 
> > I think avoiding collisions with debian accounts is still valuable, and
> > the proposal doesn't explain why removing this protection is in any way
> > related or necessary for other services to use salsa as auth providers.
> 
> I must be missing something so I'm asking: what is the *benefit* of 
> avoiding collisions with Debian accounts?
> 
foo@salsa.debian.org and foo@debian.org both existing and referring to
different people risks causing confusion.  I'd like to understand why
we're going that way.

Cheers,
Julien


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