Maniphest T71303

Provide unique ID in identify OAuth response
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	Aug 8 2014, 4:20 PM

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Currently only information about the user in identify response is username. This is problematic because usernames can be changed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Username_policy#Changing_your_username). So it is impossible to track users as they are changing usernames. Can you expose some unique non-changing ID? Probably SQL table has an ID for user row?

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:31 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-extensions-OAuth.

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Mitar created this task.Aug 8 2014, 4:20 PM

sub ("subject" in the oidc spec) is the user_id (in single wiki mode) or centralauth gu_id (in multi-wiki mode). I think that's what you want?

Oh, I missed that. Thanks! Sorry for noise.

bd808 moved this task from Backlog to Archive on the MediaWiki-extensions-OAuth board.Mar 6 2015, 12:58 AM

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