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Actually, you can't login any of the Stack Exchange websites with a username and password. The only options are OpenID and an email-based StackExchange login.
by michaelkscott 14y ago
Actually, you can't login any of the Stack Exchange websites with a username and password. The only options are OpenID and an email-based StackExchange login.
And the username can be changed any time, so anyone can change their username (which is effectively a "display name") to 'rm -rf' at any time if they want to, IIRC.
- kmontrose 14y agoTechnical our email-based login is also OpenID; https://openid.stackexchange.com/ https://openid.stackexchange.com/ , we just hide the details. And even more nitpicking-ly, our Facebook login is OAuth 2; not OpenID. But yeah, there's no relation between user display names and their logins.