[Python-Dev] Offtopic: OpenID Providers

Donald Stufft donald at stufft.io
Thu Sep 5 20:16:29 CEST 2013


On Sep 5, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 07:31:59PM +0200, Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:
>> I just received an email from my OpenID provider, "myOpenID", saying
>> that they drop OpenID service next February. I wonder what other
>> OpenID providers are used by other python-dev fellows.
>> 
>> What are you using?. bugs.python.org admins could share some data?
>> 
>> I agree than OpenID is (quite) dead, but I rather prefer OpenID to use
>> user/pass. I have big hopes for Mozilla Persona, looking forward
>> Python infrastructure support :).
>> 
>> PS: I use "http://www.jcea.es/" as my OpenID identity, and I delegate
>> the actual service to "myOpenID". I can switch delegation trivially.
> 
>   I used to use myOpenID and became my own provider using poit[1].
> These days I seldom use OpenID -- there are too few sites that allow
> full-featured login with OpenID. The future lies in OAuth 2.0.

The Auth in OAuth stands for Authorization not Authentication.

> 
> 1. http://yangman.ca/poit/
> 
> Oleg.
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