[OSM-talk] Single sign-on

[Sven Anders]

Am Montag, 17. September 2007 10:31 schrieb Lauri Hahne:
> In the forums thread there has been a lot of talk of single sign-on.
> This makes me wonder whether it would be viable to start using
> pubcookie or something similar for authentication and migrate
> everything to it. Ie eg migrate the API username/password to to this
> new system and make a way to link your wiki account to that
> infstructure as I'm quite confident that some people would like to
> keep their screen names separate in wiki and map.
>
> A major benefit of having a proper single sign-on service would be the
> ease of adding new services that require authentication.


Perhabs we can use OpenID (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID)?


Sven Anders