Different end of the oauth thing, right? Unless I've misunderstood a lot, the existing oauth is for other systems to auth against the CouchDB, these proposed merged from Iris are for authenticating couch users against other systems. On Aug 26, 2012 2:10 PM, "Paul Davis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Jason Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, developers. > > > > At Iris Couch, we have used two third-party CouchDB extensions for a > > very long time. I would like to merge both of them into master. They > > provide alternative ways to create a CouchDB user and to log in to > > CouchDB. > > > > Both mechanisms use a third-party authenticator which basically tells > > CouchDB that the person is who they say they are. Both mechanisms then > > create a local CouchDB _users document. So you can set a .password > > value and have both types of authentication. > > > > ## Mozilla Persona > > > > Written by Randall, used in production here for a year. This is > > hands-down the easiest way for developers to add logins to their Couch > > apps. See https://github.com/iriscouch/browserid_couchdb#so-simple > > > > ## CouchDB-XO_Auth > > > > Created by Ocasta, this is basically a general OAuth implementation. > > It already works against Facebook and I am now making sure it works > > with GitHub too. It has the same autovivication feature for > > newly-authenticated users. > > Would this end up replacing our current oauth thing? >
