[cgiapp] what i'd like to be doing: new authn/authz thoughts

2007-10-19 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
I want to do Stuff with OpenID. The way I see it, your OpenID right now can only replace your password, not your username, in many applications. That's because you want to be able to say: http://some.web.app/user/USERNAME/whatever Putting your OpenID, which is a URL, where USERNAME appears

Re: [cgiapp] what i'd like to be doing: new authn/authz thoughts

2007-10-19 Thread Michael Peters
Ricardo SIGNES wrote: I want to do Stuff with OpenID. The way I see it, your OpenID right now can only replace your password, not your username, in many applications. That's because you want to be able to say: http://some.web.app/user/USERNAME/whatever Putting your OpenID, which is a

Re: [cgiapp] what i'd like to be doing: new authn/authz thoughts

2007-10-19 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* Michael Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-19T19:28:20] I've been wondering if the correct approach for handling this is to log in using only your OpenID, and then let you choose a profile from among those available. profile would replace the traditional user concept. Most users would