[development] shared database solutions

[Boris Mann]

On 29-May-06, at 10:32 AM, Khalid B wrote:

> There are lots of authentication solutions around.
>
> Check SXIP and OpenID. They both have Drupal modules.
>
> (Boris? Are you lurking out there?)

Yep -- if you want this to scale infinitely, then run a central  
identity server (or use one of the systems you named as the master --  
there is a SXIP homesite module for Drupal, for instance) and then  
implement the membersite protocol for any system you want to share  
login information.

There aren't a lot of standalone identity servers yet, but most of  
them will run LDAP on the backend.

>
> On 5/29/06, John Joseph Bachir <jjb at ibiblio.org> wrote:
>> Hello. I'm the developer of Lyceum, a blogging services system  
>> based on
>> WordPress. I'm looking into what the state-of-the-art is for  
>> common user
>> login/namespace/database solutions.
>>
>> My dream is to come up with a sustainable solution for sharing a user
>> database between Lyceum, Drupal, and MediaWiki. What are folks  
>> using these
>> days? LDAP? XMLRPC? Hacky custom backend scripts?
>>
>> Any info on this topic would be very appreciated.