Question: what is the merge feature used for?

joscha / play-authenticate

An authentication plugin for Play Framework 2.x (Java)

http://joscha.github.com/play-authenticate/

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Question: what is the merge feature used for? #127

Closed markusklems closed 11 years ago

markusklems commented 11 years ago

Hi joscha, thanks for the great plugin. I was wondering: in which case is the "merge" of users used? Does this operation change user data in the database backend? How is it different from linking?

joscha commented 11 years ago

Merging merges two already existing user accounts (read: database entries). Each of those accounts can have one to X providers linked (password, google, linkedin, etc.). Linking means that an additional provider (facebook, twitter, etc.) gets added to an existing user account (read: database entry).