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OpenID on SourceForge.net
Posted on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 by lukecrouch
Category: General
I’m happy to announce we’re launching support for OpenID!
OpenID is getting tremendous traction and we’re happy to be jumping into it. it’s bringing us back in touch with fresh web (2.0) technology. as a decentralized open-source standard, it’s a perfect fit for us - it allows us to streamline more user interaction and participation with our site, and hopefully more for the whole OSS community.
we’ve spent the past couple weeks on it - integrating the Zend Framework OpenID component into our site code. we like the framework as a whole and I personally hope to use more of it in the future. we’ve been happy to participate, as a company, in the ZF project and have already submitted reports of, and patches for, some OpenID issues and enhancements.
while I’m giving shout-outs, I have to thanks the SF staff who worked on it - especially Paul Huff, Patrick Mee, John Hoffmann, Adam Voigt, Kathi Hutchings, and Wes Moran for tolerating my squawking while they did the productive work over the last few weeks. and Lisa and Ross have really helped me get out of my shell to tell the community about it.
we’re really hoping OpenID is good for our users, and we’re eager to have everyone try it out and give us feedback - both good and bad - here in our community forums, or out in the blogosphere, or wherever. so, go log in with your OpenID already! and learn more about our implementation on our OpenID site doc page.
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This is excellent news. It’s nice to have one more place where I can use my OpenID identifier to log in.
However, the signup form still seems to require a local password for OpenID users. This is confusing and in a way defeats the object of using OpenID. While it’s nice that I can just make up a lengthy, completely unmemorable password and not have to worry about it, it’s still irritating that I have to come up with a password at all.
mgatki, excellent point. we tried to explain our needs for doing so in the site doc page - http://alexandria.wiki.sourceforge.net/OpenID#tocOpenID6
because we create ssh and scm accounts for all users, we still need valid username and password credentials for those kinds of off-web services. we know this isn’t the ideal for our website-only users, but for now it was the best way for us to start our OpenID implementation.
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mgatki/lukecrouch:
It seems to me the only option is to provide a separate interface for managing ssh and scm passwords that’s a little more decoupled from the login and account creation process. Is that more confusing, or less?
Ross
The implemtation that Sourceforge as taken for OpenID seems fair enough,
dual login. I do not wish to have only an OpenID access means for
Sourceforge. If I’m forced to use only OpenID I will take my projects
elsewhere. I do not understand how people think having the same key
for every door that you wish to have locked and private is a good
thing. On top of that having the key managed by someone besides
yourself.
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rturk:
you’re right - we’d have to decouple the site and non-site auth mechanisms. we considered it at the outset, but it will take not-insignificant amount of work to do it. I think it’s at the top of our list for improvements/enhancements to our OpenID feature.
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