(conversation fork) While we're talking about authentication systems, I thought it would be relevant to mention "Cosign" ( http://weblogin.org ): "An open source project originally designed to provide the University of Michigan with a secure single sign-on web authentication system. Cosign is part of the National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative (NMI)" This is a single-point auth system, in contrast to OpenID, which does the opposite. However, this is extremely useful in institutions (universities, companies, etc) where there is a universal login system already in place. (All of UofM's ITservices use this) I haven't seen any Drupal client implementations that implement this; does anyone know of one? -Arnab (note: i am not related to the cosign project in any way) On 7/31/06, Dries Buytaert <dries.buytaert@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello world,
take a look at http://iwantmyopenid.org/.
"Soon we will be granting $5,000 USD directly to ten open-source projects that successfully implement OpenID."
I talked to Scott Kveten (CEO of Janrain) and Corey Shields (OSL) and they would be willing to wire the $5,000 USD directly to OSL so they can buy us an additional machine, something which we might need in the near future.
I think this makes for a good opportunity to implement OpenID into Drupal core, and to get rid of our own distributed authentication framework. We talked about this earlier, and I believe there was a consensus about the fact we should adopt a standard.
I believe that OpenID is they way to go so even without a bounty it would be of "strategic importance".
Thoughts?
-- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/