[fab] OpenID: an actually distributed identity system

[Mike McGrath]

On 9/27/06, seth vidal <skvidal at linux.duke.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-27 at 08:41 -0400, Michael Tiemann wrote:
> - moinmoin has been 'openid enabled' - but only in 1.5.X - not the
> version we're using right now - 1.3.X. We should be able to move to it -
> but it will be an involved process, I'm sure. Not the least of which is
> getting all the people to now create openid accounts. And this says
> nothing of the need for the CLA that we require.
>
> - mailman - it has been openid enabled but not in the upstream release.
> Patches are available.
>
> - bugzilla appears to be completely out in the cold which means there
> would be a need for someone to do the programming and, theoretically,
> submitting the patches upstream.
>
> So we'd have to refit a good portion of our infrastructure (some of
> which also serves @redhat.com not just fedora) and we'd have to get our
> users to migrate to the new login mechanism. I'm not saying it's
> impossible but I think we're looking at a development time and migration
> path that IF we have people willing to undertake it will take greater
> than a year.
>
> -sv
>

We're re-designing the accounting system right now anyway, we could
certainly look into doing something like this.  For those that don't
know here's the draft page:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/AccountSystem2/

       -Mike