[wp-hackers] Single sign-on with Wordpress & Mediawiki

[Robin Adrianse]

Yeah, I saw that :). I was more responding to Travis.

On 10/28/07, Computer Guru <computerguru at neosmart.net> wrote:
>
> 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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