[OSM-talk] Taking OSM usernames and passwords on other

Martin Spott Martin.Spott at mgras.net
Wed Mar 28 16:21:55 BST 2007


Hi Christopher,

Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> [...] I've thought about using
> OpenID as a solution, and it really doesn't solve the problem: Freemap
> still needs a way to say "I'm speaking on behalf of
> crschmidt at crschmidt.net" to the OSM server.

Well, this is a classical application that calls for the use of
Kerberos tickets, where the Kerberos server grants a ticket to the
client for authorization at the OSM backend who then submits the ticket
to the 'middleman' for accessing the OSM database,

	Martin.
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