On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Magnus Manske <magnusman...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > on my talk page, [[User:Pathoschild]] raised the idea of allowing > OpenID authentication to operate toolserver tools that currently rely > on TUSC. While I'd rather go for browserID [1] (not mutually > exclusive), it raised the point of which authentication is "good > enough" for using some toolserver tools, especially those that edit or > upload on Wiki(m|p)edia projects. > > Would these non-TUSC accounts need to be linked to Wiki(m|p)edia user > names? If so, how would this be done? If Wiki(m|p)edia were to provide > openID/browserID authentication, it would be a non-issue, but as it > stands, this would need to be done on the toolserver in some form, > which would most likely be more cumbersome than the current TUSC > account creation. > > Ideas? > > > Magnus >
Well, Wikimedia should become OpenID/OAuth provider for that. --vvv _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list (Toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
