Dreamwidth accounts vs. LJ OpenID accounts: check your subscription and access lists

[cellio]

A lot of us now have OpenID accounts at Dreamwidth, which means we can log in to Dreamwidth using a Livejournal credential. This allows a Dreamwidth user to give a Livejournal user access to locked posts. These IDs are of the form "name.livejournal.com". For example, here is mine.

A lot of us also have native Dreamwidth accounts, which we log into with our Dreamwidth passwords and use to post entries. For example, here is mine.

These are not the same account.

That means that if you've granted access to "somebody.livejournal.com" (OpenID), but haven't granted access to "somebody" (Dreamwidth account), then "somebody" while logged in on Dreamwidth won't see your locked posts. Similarly, if you've subscribed to "somebody.livejournal.com", that doesn't mean you're going to see "somebody"'s posts in your feed. So if you want to read and grant access to your migrating LJ friends on Dreamwidth, you need to match up the accounts.

Currently, 32 people have granted access to "cellio.livejournal.com". Most of them have not granted access to "cellio", which means I won't see those posts. Maybe that's intentional (hey, intentions change; I'm not offended), but maybe it's unintentional.

I have two requests of my LJ friends:

1. If we're not connected there, and assuming you want to be, please add my Dreamwidth account to whatever lists you think appropriate. When I see email about new subscriptions/access, I check to make sure I've done the same. (If I've somehow missed you, please let me know. If I subscribed to you on LJ I want to do so on DW too.)

2. If you are not planning to use your LJ account to read posts on Dreamwidth, because you have a native account and will be reading that way, please let me know so I can remove your LJ account from my access lists. This isn't about not trusting you; this is about being able to manage my filters more easily -- if you're not using it anyway, I'd rather not be carrying it. Plus, you know, closing unnecessary security gaps.

Yeah, migration is a hassle. We'll get it sorted out.

Thanks!

Comments

[jducoeur]

I'm unlikely to read your Dreamwidth posts on LJ -- I'm only going to be doing that for a few folks such as siderea, who tend to have especially interesting comment threads -- so feel free to take the LJ account off. (Although, now that I've merged the accounts, do they still show up separately?)

[cellio]

And on the DW side, you don't plan to log in using your LJ credentials but instead will just use your DW account, I presume?

Although, now that I've merged the accounts, do they still show up separately?

Assuming you're talking about "claiming" your jducoeur.livejournal.com account on DW, no. This confused me too; I thought that claiming my account meant a merge. All it means is that comments posted under that (via import) are now attributed to me, but it didn't merge subscriptions or access grants. Hence this post, once I discovered that (and that I have a lot of foo.lj.com subscriptions without their just-plain-foo counterparts).

[jducoeur]

you don't plan to log in using your LJ credentials but instead will just use your DW account

Good point. Yes, that's probably always going to be true.

And I'm surprised that merge doesn't merge permissions. There may be a good security reason for it, but I don't know offhand what it is...