Blogging Roller: OpenID support in Roller

OpenID support in Roller

Thanks to one hard working student and the Google Summer of Code, we now have a patch for OpenID support in Roller and its ready to commit to trunk. Here's a teaser screenshot:

If you want to know more, the proposal for OpenID support is on our wiki and the patch is attached to issue ROL-1733 in our bug tracking system.

Dave Johnson in Roller • 🕒 03:46AM Sep 03, 2008

Tags: google gsoc openid roller

Comments:

Nice work. Though I would like to see generic pluggable federated authentication. OpenID is only one protocol in this space, in the academic community shibboleth is much more widely used for federated authentication.

Posted by cal on September 03, 2008 at 12:10 PM EDT #

Good stuff, congratulations on getting OpenID going. I work for a company called Vidoop and for site operators we run an affiliate program at http://affiliates.vidoop.com which gives you an easy way to refer members to myVidoop to get their OpenID account. Joining an affiliate program is a way for the site operator to keep the user from having to wade through all the different OpenID providers and possibly getting stuck with an unreliable provider. The link can go anywhere and is very unobtrusive, here is an example of what it could look like: http://ma.gnolia.com/signin Cheers, Kevin

Posted by Kevin Fox on September 04, 2008 at 07:22 PM EDT #

Excellent news. You might also want to check out an OpenID login widget that makes it easier for people to login on your site with with OpenID: www.idselector.com. Its free, easy to install, and fully configurable to meet your needs. JanRain also offers a co-branded affiliate program to allow your customers to quickly get a market-leading OpenID from myOpenID.com. myOpenID offers V1.X and V2.0 compatibility, SSL certificate and InfoCard authentication, out-of-band CallVerifID phone-based multi-factor authentication, multiple personas, and many more features. More information at https://www.myopenid.com/affiliate

Posted by Brian Kissel on September 05, 2008 at 11:57 AM EDT #

The myVidoop affiliate program also integrated the ID Selector from JanRain, you can see how Twitterfeed integrated it here: http://twitterfeed.com/auth/login

Posted by Kevin Fox on September 10, 2008 at 10:11 PM EDT #

Great ! Hope to see this in Roller 4.1, soon.

Posted by Thorleif Wiik on September 17, 2008 at 12:56 PM EDT #