[fab] OpenID: an actually distributed identity system

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, seth vidal wrote:

> > For FC7, I think that creating an OpenID account should be part of Fedora 
> > firstboot.  Create your Fedora wiki account, your bugzilla account, and 
> > your everything-else account in one swell foop.
> 
> I'm pretty sure we can't count on network access for firstboot.

No, but we can surely figure out how to fail gracefully like RHEL/RHN 
does.

Networked version: "create your openID or enter your openID now."

Non-networked version: "don't forget to go to openid.fedoraproject.org."
 
> However, given how openid works do we want to consider becoming an
> identity provider as a part of the account system?

Absolutely no reason we can't do both.

--g

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