Caleb, Ben, & List, Caleb's implementation idea is exactly what I had in mind. It certainly would be an optional auth mechanism, and won't fix the problem of existing forgotten passwords, but it will eliminate future problems of that nature for OpenID users.
I'm going to cook something up using as described by Caleb this afternoon. Is everyone still thinking of going to the Lucky Lab tomorrow night? Brian > > I support using OpenID. I actually brought this up on the development > mailing list recently (Brian, you might want to join [0] if you are > working on the website). > > However, I agree with Ben that such an integration must be handled > gracefully. I would propose, that when creating an account, a user can > enter their OpenID in lieu of a password. Then, on the login page, a > user would either enter a username and password, or, an OpenID (which > would redirect to the open-id-server, do the authentication, and return > to pdxruby.org). > > Also, when a user edit's their account, they should be able to > add/change their OpenID. This way, existing users can "switch" to OpenID > authentication. > > Using an implementation like this, we don't have to change any of the > current infrastructure, it just provides a convenient alternative for > those who already have an OpenID account. > > [0] http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby-dev > > -- > Caleb Phillips > IT Specialist > Small White Cube > _______________________________________________ > PDXRuby mailing list > [email protected] > IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net > http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby > _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
