[OSM-talk] forum.openstreetmap.org

[Tom Hughes]

In message <46FED092.5010700 at arjam.net>
          "Robert (Jamie) Munro" <rjmunro at arjam.net> wrote:

> Frederik Ramm wrote:
> > Single sign-on is not about being known under the same name
> > everywhere. That would be the OpenID line of things which is not
> > primarily about single sign-on, but primarily about reputation - you
> > want to know that this is the same guy who writes that blog and so on.
> > I would not necessarly advocate this for OSM.
> 
> That's not how I would use OpenID at all. There's no reason not to have
> users login with an OpenID, but then be displayed by a configurable
> screen name.
> 
> I guess that OpenID is most popular in blog comments, and your
> reputation idea may well happen, but AFAIK it's not an intended part of
> the standard. I think that OSM should move to OpenID, simply because
> plug ins for Rails, MediaWiki, mailman and anything else we might use
> are already available. Making it work with JOSM may be a bit harder, but
> we could just let people log in to the site with OpenID and set a random
> API password for JOSM to use.

What's special about JOSM? It's just an API client so is talking to
rails, so if rails can be made to support OpenID then JOSM will also
support it by default.

Tom

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