+1. Do we have tickets/branches for this yet?
Jan -- On Aug 25, 2012, at 03:26 , 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.
