https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13631
--- Comment #16 from Tyler Romeo <[email protected]> 2012-09-27 17:31:46 UTC --- (In reply to comment #15) > (In reply to comment #14) > > [...] > > That still doesn't change my point. OAuth is the appropriate tool for > > external > > applications to verify a user's identity and then perform operations on that > > user's behalf. > > The point of TUSC isn't necessarily to perform operations on a user's behalf, > but for example just to ensure their consent to aggregate personal data as > required by https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Rules#Privacy_Policy. That's a > subset of what OAuth offers, but can very well be accomplished with OpenID. But that's still something that should be done with OAuth. You may not be doing stuff on behalf of the user, but you are accessing the user's data, which is a permission that can be granted using OAuth. OpenID is supposed to be used for single sign-on. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
