[OpenID] Cascade of servers? Is that a valid model?

[Miguel Figueiredo]

 Yes, it's something like that. Obrigado, André.

I've to check "Delegation".

Miguel



On 12/28/07, André Luís <andreluis.pt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From what you're saying, I believe you're describing Delegation.
>
> Your users would build a list of openids and chose one of them as the
> active one. They would then use your URL as login for other websites
> when in reality, they would be logging in at their current openid
> provider.
>
> Is that what you want?
>
> I'm not aware if any of this has changed for spec 2.0... anyone? Thanks.
>
> --
> André Luís
>
> On Dec 28, 2007 12:33 PM, Miguel Figueiredo <fig.miguel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm studying the possibility of using OpenId.
> >
> > My organization's site has hundreds of registered users. Everyone there
> will
> > have an OpenId: "username.mysite.org".
> >
> > My first purpose is to provide Single Sign On for external sites,
> proving
> > that those users belong to my organization.
> >
> > But I also want people already having an openid to use it at my site,
> > without the need of having another password.
> >
> > Therefore, each user, besides the OpenId provided by my site, can
> register,
> > at his site's account, one or more external OpenIds.
> >
> > When a user accesses my site he can be authenticated either by username
> /
> > Password or by one of his external openids.
> >
> > When a user accesses a site which is using mine for Single Sign On
> purposes,
> > he can only enter the default OpenID, provided by my site. This second
> site
> > then connects to my OpenID server -- where the user can use any of his
> > registered OpenIds to authenticate himself.
> >
> > This process is something like:
> >
> > User enters "username.mysite.org" --> the consumer connects to my server
> -->
> > my server might have, for this user, an external OpenID defined --> the
> user
> > chooses this OpenId ---> My server sends the request to other server -->
> > this second server replies Ok ---> my server then replies Ok to the
> > consumer.
> >
> > Is this a valid OpenID model?
> >
> > Are there other ways allowing a consumer to know that a certain OpenId
> > belongs to a valid user at my site, although its OpenId's server is
> > elsewhere?
> >
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> >
> > Miguel
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