On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Steven Edwardswinehacker@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Scott Ritchiescott@open-vote.org wrote:
I'm not sure if it's a good idea, but there may be some merit in having one of the accounts function as an OpenID Provider and then have the others be able to link to it (but still be "separate accounts"). After that it's just about being able to login by OpenID rather than have a single account moving across each place.
Based upon my recollection there was a lot of contempt for OpenID at the last wineconf. Maybe the situation has changed recently...
Was the contempt for OpenID in general, or the idea of using an existing third party as an OpenID providers? Although it would be against the spirit of OpenID, it would be possible for one WineHQ service to provide OpenID only to other WineHQ services, and for them to only accept an OpenID from that particular WineHQ provider. This would be no better than other single-sign-on solutions, but there are a lot more open source cross-framework implementations of OpenID available than for most other solutions.