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author | intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org> | 2010-12-20 14:27:21 +0100 |
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committer | intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org> | 2010-12-20 14:27:21 +0100 |
commit | 75196e76b627709a6ecae3fa948e1fba7928a5ce (patch) | |
tree | 6aa2baeb9cc68f98ca256ce0ff5cb20909f52ef9 /doc/news/openid | |
parent | 8c2962ec48ae57605d6d0e297be437a97b6229ca (diff) | |
parent | e5ed3c9e3801360cc00ce4f4f325f68ac0770bff (diff) |
Merge remote branch 'upstream/master' into prv/po
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diff --git a/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn b/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn index e611fa77b..bc9856ad9 100644 --- a/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/news/openid/discussion.mdwn @@ -80,3 +80,17 @@ which fails here? Or is something broken in Ikiwiki's implementation? > [[bugs/OpenID_delegation_fails_on_my_server]] --[[Joey]] Yes. I'd only recently set up my server as a delegate under wordpress, so still thought that perhaps the issue was on my end. But I'd since used my delegate successfully elsewhere, so I filed it as a bug against ikiwiki. + +---- +###Pretty Painless +I just tried logging it with OpenID and it Just Worked. Pretty painless. If you want to turn off password authentication on ikiwiki.info, I say go for it. --[[blipvert]] + +> I doubt I will. The new login interface basically makes password login +> and openid cooexist nicely. --[[Joey]] + +###LiveJournal openid +One caveat to the above is that, of course, OpenID is a distributed trust system which means you do have to think about the trust aspect. A case in point is livejournal.com whose OpenID implementation is badly broken in one important respect: If a LiveJournal user deletes his or her journal, and a different user registers a journal with the same name (this is actually quite a common occurrence on LiveJournal), they in effect inherit the previous journal owner's identity. LiveJournal does not even have a mechanism in place for a remote site even to detect that a journal has changed hands. It is an extremely dodgy situation which they seem to have *no* intention of fixing, and the bottom line is that the "identity" represented by a *username*.livejournal.com token should not be trusted as to its long-term uniqueness. Just FYI. --[[blipvert]] + +---- + +Submitting bugs in the OpenID components will be difficult if OpenID must be working first... |