[SOLVED] Forum Persona platform requires only email no password?

Posted on Tue 3rd, May 2016

• #1

electronicsguy

Hello,
I happened to open this forum on a public computer and tried to login. To my astonishment, the persona login only asks for the email address and logs you in. You can change any account details you want without and password.

What exactly is the thinking behind this?

edit: ok please cancel this post. my stupidity :D I was already logged in into my gmail account on the same computer and the persona platform seems to pick credentials from there.
• #2

Gordon

No problem - I'll leave this up if you don't mind, in case anyone else has the same issue and is worried :)

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