Re: OpenID: an actually distributed identity system

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A big +1.

In fact:

For FC7, I think that creating an OpenID account should be part of Fedora 
firstboot.  Create your Fedora wiki account, your bugzilla account, and 
your everything-else account in one swell foop.

--g

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On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Michael Tiemann wrote:

> I saw OpenID ( http://openid.net/ ) presented and demonstrated at
> EuroOSCON last week--it looked really cool.  My reason for writing this
> morning is because on another list (grass-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx) developers
> are bemoaning the problem of (1) spam in their bugtracker, and (2) their
> desire to keep the bugtracker open and not require that users sign up
> for an account before using the system.
> 
> I understand there is a similar question being discussed about just how
> open to make the Fedora Wiki (not the CVS repository, but the Wiki).
> 
> I, too, hate the fact that I have to manage so many identities on the
> web, and I, too, wish there were a decent single sign-on for me to use
> with my favorite websites.  I'd like to suggest OpenID as a possible
> candidate for solving that problem and see whether enough people on this
> list agree to push it into the Fedora infrastructure.
> 
> M
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