On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 06:50 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > It seems that openid is moving along. Maybe f9 can integrate openid as an > SSO solution? > > http://lwn.net/Articles/255774/ Certainly an interesting concept, but that would pull us way too far into the Internet space (as opposed to local or even private domain space). How would an openid user map to Linux in terms of UID? Would a uid be assigned on a local machine? On the domain (if the machine the person is logging into happens to be a part of a bigger network)? Does the OpenID spec have provisions for account authorization and information? There are still some UNIX-y things needed by current distributions that we have to find solutions for. OTOH, it ties well with the Gnome Online Desktop idea, once you get past (or provide for) the things that traditional Unix accounts need. It would do well on truly public kiosks where authorization can be some public default and accounting based in OpenID. I was going to try my hand at writing an OpenID PAM module, but found a project already started on google (http://code.google.com/p/pam-openid/ ) It's linked to from these blogs: http://kveton.com/blog/2006/12/10/openid-pam/ and http://yablog-gary.blogspot.com/2007/10/openid-pam-and-apache.html . According to one site, they had some discussion going, but the posts were lost or yanked. At any rate, I'll play around with the idea and post results there. -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
