Gmail, Facebook etc fully or partially support OpenID to allow you to use your Facebook or GMail OpenID to login to other services. OpenID and OAuth 1.0 are separate things. CouchDB does not support OpenID.
There is a CouchDB-OpenID project on github but I've not tried it. Martin On Wednesday, November 3, 2010, Ido Ran <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I hope it the right place to ask it. > I want to write an application and I don't want my users to remember yet > another username and password set. > Does OAuth is the answer for it? > Can I use it for single-sign-on using Gmail, Facebook, Yahoo or any other > provider? > > Ido > > On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Doug <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Basically, no. >> >> Even if it did implement the full set of actions, you'd still only be able >> to use a couchdb login to login to other services, not vice versa... >> >> ~ >> Doug. >> >> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Wordit Ltd <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Martin Higham <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > > >> > > The CouchDB OAuth implementation is a partial implementation that >> > supports >> > > the OAuth signing of requests where the client has it's client >> > credentials >> > > and knows the user's access token. >> > >> > Does that mean you can let users log in via their OpenID, Twitter or >> > Facebook account? That's what I couldn't figure out yet. >> > >> > If not, is it at all possible with CouchDB? Many commenting systems >> > use that now and it's great not to require additional signups. >> > >> > Marcus >> > >> >
