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[Computer Guru]

I agree....

hence the "/me spends too much time idealizing." bit ;-)

On 10/29/07, Robin Adrianse <robin.adr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm talking about real-life, apparently... the possiblity of having
> standards for these kind of things is pretty slim. Very slim, in fact.
> Anyone who says otherwise (OpenID) is a bit of an optimist to say the
> least.
> OpenID, while a great idea, isn't going to catch on easily with the
> general
> public. A tool with only a few geeks (technologically aware people) using
> it
> isn't going to make a huge impact.
>
> On 10/28/07, Travis Snoozy <ai2097 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 14:19:56 -0700, "Robin Adrianse"
> > <robin.adr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 10/28/07, Computer Guru <computerguru at neosmart.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > It would be nice if all these popular open source projects could use
> > > > standards for a lot of things.
> > >
> > > I'll have some of whatever he's smoking... :P
> >
> > What are you talking about? Open Source, as a whole, is built on
> > a huge foundation of standards. Not only that, but there's a library
> > for almost everything, and re-use is fairly common. Write a standard
> > with a BSD-licensed reference implementation, make it visible so people
> > know about it, and you're gold.
> >
> > And since I brought up the topic of visibility -- see also: PAM[1], and
> > the PHP bindings[2]. I'm pretty sure that plugging this into the WP auth
> > framework would allow WP and any other PAM-enabled software to work off
> > the same auth tables. The issue is then simply a matter of getting more
> > PHP packages to use PAM, vs. rolling their own internal auth system. ;)
> >
> >
> > --
> > Travis
> >
> > In Series maintainer
> > Random coder & quality guy
> > <http://remstate.com/>
> >
> > [] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_Authentication_Modules
> > [] http://pecl.php.net/package/PAM
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