2009/4/21 Callum Lerwick <seg@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 21:29 +0200, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: >> > ... Then we make FAS an OpenID provider. >> >> http://<your fas account>.id.fedoraproject.org >> >> It's already working fine :) > > Oooh. Now if only the UI didn't suck. Having to enter awkward URLs > everywhere kind of defeats the entire idea of seamless ease of use. > > Also, I should be able to merge my Google ID/Fedora ID/whatever with my > existing 8 year old Livejournal account. Instead I seem to get an > entirely new account. :P > > Google has it right guys, the standard sucks: > > http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/google-doesnt-use-openid/ > > We just need a standard way of discovering what OpenID providers the > user is using, instead of hardwiring Google/Yahoo/whatever. This is > probably best accomplished by interaction with the browser, which will > need an account manager... (which most already have a "remember > passwords" system already...) Maybe i have completely misunderstood how openid works but from what i gather the whole purpose of using a url as the id is that the url is contacted to do the authentication. Therefore we already have a way of discovering what openid provider the user is using (its embedded in the way it works) and that means no hardwiring needed. -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
