>>> [!note] Migrated issue <!-- Drupal.org comment --> <!-- Migrated from issue #353425. --> Reported by: [gábor hojtsy](https://www.drupal.org/user/4166) >>> <p>Since we are about to migrate over from the Drupal provided drupal.module based distributed authentication scheme (which is broken in many ways), we should set up an alternate, more widespread mechanism to use the drupal.org accounts to log in to other sites. </p> <p>Since several sites (including groups.drupal.org and local Drupal user communities) use this mechanism, we should provide some migration path as well. I think we should also provide a Drupal 6 and 5 module which would replace or override drupal.module and intercept drupal.org usernames. When such usernames are used, the module should inform the user on the new correct OpenID to use to log in. This module should depend on the OpenID module in Drual 5 and 6, so we ensure that OpenID is turned on on the sites which take up this migration path. For others, the drupal.org users will be broken until they perform these steps.</p> <p>I am volunteering to implement this module (I believe it will not be a big deal), but I have no way to set up an OpenID server on drupal.org. While this does not solve the single-sign-on requirements we have for the redesign, it does solve our migration path from drupal.module, which is a prerequisite (unless we are fine with breaking all users using these names all over the web).</p>