[OSM-talk] Single sign-on

[Sven Anders]

Am Montag, 17. September 2007 12:01 schrieben Sie:
> Hi,
>
> > Perhabs we can use OpenID
>
> For all I've heard, OpenID essentially forces you to use the same
> username in all participating services, which is something that not
> everybody will be happy with.

Thats not true.

You login in with an openId, which contains a domain.
This could be: "frederik.example.com"

But normaly the service (OpenStreetMap)  chose to display the user under a 
other username (could be "frederik" or whatever)

Of couse, ist should be optional to use openID or not, but it would a nice 
feature. 

>
> Of course I want to log in with the same username everywhere, but I
> do not necessarily want everyone else to be able to make the connection.
>
> Plus, the OpenID user names tend to be ugly and long, and it is
> unlikely that things like MediaWiki will work well with that.

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:OpenID