I was actually _literally_ suggesting registering "local" accounts on every server and letting the client manage the credentials. Yes, this is incredibly, incredibly dumb.
100% agree that it would be better to get scoped users and federated authentication going as official parts of the protocol. This was just a thought experiment in "what could we do if we had to go it alone and were willing to break the rules a bit."
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