On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 12:54 -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 09:01 -0700, Richi Plana wrote: > > 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. > > We have the problem of UIDs in the enterprise space right now even > without OpenID in the mix. > > The problem being Posix and Linux/UNIX really are not "network-aware" > when it comes to identity. This seems like an excellent occasion to point to the freeIPA project (wwww.freeeipa.org), which we will hopefully start to appear in Fedora fairly soon. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
