[development] OpenID

Ainsley Pereira drupaldev at pebble.org.uk
Mon Jul 31 06:29:31 UTC 2006


On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:23:06AM +0200, Dries Buytaert wrote:
> 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".

Absolutely. FWIW, my site (http://www.pebble.org.uk/) is already using
the drupal openid module, showing that this should be quite an easy $5K
for someone :)

~Ainsley


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