297828 - Authenticate users against their jabber account

Status: NEW

(Bugzilla :: Extension Ideas, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Lukasz Stelmach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041221
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041221

Since there is a lot of bugzilla systems today and many users take part in
development of more than one product it becomes quite a problem to have more and
more accounts. The proble is not even in the number of accounts but number of
passwords. My proposal is to use Jabber instead of e-mail for registration and
then for distribution of one time authentication tokens.

User would register in the bugzilla with her jid (and maybe e-mail too).
Everytime she would like to log in would receive a token (password, url).

Since jabber is generally much faster and much more handy than e-mail it might
be a good solution of increasing number of bugzilla passwords.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

*** Bug 297848 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Alexander Sashnov]

Seem usefull feature

Comment 3

[Lukasz Stelmach]

Lads at http://openid.xmpp.za.net did what I meant. Take a look at it.

Comment 4

[Matěj Cepl]

Shouldn't this bug get nice WONTFIX in favor of fixing bug 294608

Comment 5

[Lukasz Stelmach]

I hope it won't, however, OpenID should go first.

Comment 6

[Matěj Cepl]

And of course if you have OpenID, nothing stops you from http://openid.xmpp.za.net/ or something similar.

Comment 7

[:glob ✱]

this proposal is better suited to being implemented as an extension instead of in bugzilla core.