</ul>
</dd>
<dt>
- <p>
- E-mail address authentication uses a scheme to authenticate e-mail addresses of the users. The user who initially enters or who changes his/her stored e-mail address
- gets a one-time temporary password mailed to that address. The user can use the original password as long as wanted, however, the stored e-mail address
- is only authenticated at the moment when the user logs in with the one-time temporary password.<p>
+ <p>E-mail address authentication uses a scheme to authenticate e-mail addresses of the users. The user who initially enters or changes his/her stored e-mail address
+ gets a link with a token mailed to that address. The stored e-mail address is authenticated at the moment the user comes back to the wiki via the link.</p>
<p>The e-mail address stays authenticated as long as the user does not change it; the time of authentication is indicated
on the user preference page.</p>