Comments on: Too Many Usernames!

By: Phil Dawes’ Stuff » Blog Archive » Django openid auth - first stab

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:15:44 +0000

[...] I’ve been experimenting with adding openid authentication to django. I couldn’t find another software package to do this (although I did see this, which implies there is some other code out there) Anyway - here’s mine so far. [...]

By: Ben Bangert

Ben Bangert — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 07:11:54 +0000

Hi Ben, I implemented OpenID auth as a WSGI middleware function today. As Django supports WSGI, should be a snap to use with it. This only handles authenticating the user though, there’s still work to be done for individual frameworks like Django to actually take the login info and do something meaningful with it.

Cheers,
Ben Bangert

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 22:07:18 +0000

James,

Your argument sounds like, “The corporations aren’t doing it, so it’s bound to fail.” I wholely disagree to that. The Identity 2.0 workshops have a good amount of participation from many different parties. OpenId has had involvement by members from Verisign. And the forward drive, in general, seems to be towards some sort of federated system.

Also, corps in many respects are late adopters. Example: the web came along and wasn’t fully embraced by corps at first. Things didn’t fit the client-server computing model, but things changed.

Maybe you’re suggesting the idea that corps want to have strict control over their users? That’s more about authorization and access. What wrote about is Identity and Authentication, two related but different things.

-Ben

By: James

James — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 02:44:13 +0000

You are viewing identity solely from a consumer perspective. Take a peak at how enterprises think about it and your idea will fall apart quickly…

http://duckdown.blogspot.com

By: bindi

bindi — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 21:21:29 +0000

From what I could gather and/or understand (this is me…quite illiterate with computer jargon), it looks like you’re beginning to put an end to this multi-username bs and for that, well done! I completely agree. Having so many usernames and passwords is quite annoying considering the human brain’s reluctant capacity to hold all of them in; it’s good to know something’s being done, especially with all the services going 100% online now.

When ya got saved Word documents that have all those usernames and passwords as references, you start to wonder…

Kudos Ben…from what I could decipher, your projects sounds very innovative and will cater to the masses…

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:18:06 +0000

Moe: I actually use videntity.org as my OpenId authentication server. OpenId has a nice delegation feature, which unburdens me from needing to run an authentication server. http://www.myopenid.com is also another free identity server. If you’ve got a LiveJournal account, then you’ve also got an openid url. cool stuff going around.

Jacob: Will do.

By: Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Jacob Kaplan-Moss — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 15:50:49 +0000

Hey, Ben –

I’d be very interested in seeing what you’re doing with OpenID and Django. Drop me a line if there’s anything you’d like Django to do to make that type of integration easier.

By: Moe

Moe — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:49:33 +0000

So I was browsing around about openID a bit. I ran across a link that was a good quick read.

Videntity is an interesting web based social network that is open and combines OpenID, XFN, and FOAF. Users maintain an identity with personal information on the site, and they can invite friends to join. It is an open network because you can add information about people you know who are not in the network.

Videntity - an open social network

By: Moe

Moe — Thu, 08 Dec 2005 09:43:19 +0000

Ben as I have said many time, “you dominate like kobe on white chicks.”

I agree with every one of your views. Although many people feel the internet has matured, it has not. The problem you bring up shows the point. I think the best part of the blog is the open source element.