[OpenID] suggested server for private SSO using openid?
Rob Brandt
bronto at csd-bes.net
Mon Jul 28 14:40:32 UTC 2008
That appears to be ideal. I have created an identity and successfully
logged in to me test system. I assume the user experience can be
modified? Templates, profile options, etc.?
This should be listed on the openid.net site.
Rob
Lukas Rosenstock wrote, On 7/28/2008 7:07 AM:
> Is this server interesting for you?
> http://www.barnraiser.org/index.php?wp=AMi
>
> It's maybe a bit heavyweight as it provides also personal identity pages and
> stuff on top of OpenID, but anyway it's a standalone OpenID server that is
> written in PHP, runs on MySQL and is quite easy to install (done this before
> for a test installation).
> Oh yes, and it uses subdomain format for identities.
>
> Lukas
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: general-bounces at openid.net [mailto:general-bounces at openid.net] Im
> Auftrag von Rob Brandt
> Gesendet: Montag, 28. Juli 2008 08:40
> An: SitG Admin
> Cc: general at openid.net
> Betreff: Re: [OpenID] suggested server for private SSO using openid?
>
> Thanks. We have two existing custom systems that will need to be
> integrated eventually, hopefully sometime over the next year. We have
> some institutional knowledge of Zikula/postnuke because of a different
> project that will not EVER integrated for non-technical reasons, so we
> are going with that. Our first OpenID project based on this is already
> installed and working with myopenid.com as a proof of concept, but we
> need a private provider.
>
> I'm a little wary of hacks because I want something supported by an
> active community so that it will be upgraded and maintained, and I don't
> want to have to constantly re-hack.
>
> Mysql is highly desired because we're going that way on everything else.
> But I'm open minded.
>
> Thanks for your input and interest.
>
>
>
> SitG Admin wrote, On 7/27/2008 11:04 PM:
>>> * A library is not what I'm after. I'm looking for a installable
>>> solution I don't have to spend time developing a system around.
>> So, you don't even have an interaction framework for these sites yet?
>> You're essentially looking at building them from the authentication (as
>> foundation) up, not taking an existing system and trying to integrate
>> OpenID into it?
>>
>> There are common content-publishing solutions such as WordPress, some of
>> which (*cough* WP) don't support OpenID natively, but can be made to do
>> so with plugins. I'm currently developing a system that can
>> automatically scale as further users arrive (to upgrade the system that
>> requires my manual intervention, but for private content customized to
>> existing clients that hasn't been a problem), but it'll be at least a
>> few days before this is ready (and probably much closer to a few weeks).
>> When it's done I'll open-source the code, of course :)
>>
>>> From openid.net:
>>> * phpMyID - a standalone, single user identity provider.
>>> (As it says, single user)
>> It can be modified to support multiple users. In addition to the method
>> described on phpMyID's forums, I worked out a quick hack that achieves
>> the same purpose (but, again, requiring manual intervention for each new
>> user - I only did it for testing, so, again, wasn't a problem).
>>
>>> * Clamshell - standalone, multi-user OpenID server.
>>> (looks like a nice system but doesn't list jblow.example.com as an ID
>>> format.
>> Since you're using PHP, you can include the starting Clamshell file from
>> a script that looks at your $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] string and extracts
>> the 'jblow' part from it.
>>
>> (If you get any "not found" errors, try fixing the active directory to
>> wherever Clamshell is located - sorry, don't know the command for this,
>> I fixed it by adjusting relative include paths to absolute for the
>> openidenabled.com library.)
>>
>>> Still it has several options which suggests it's flexible. But data
>>> isn't stored in a database)
>> Are you after "database" in general or MySQL in particular?
>>
>> I was thinking about memcached back when I read your first message but
>> then I noticed that you said the server would *not* be under heavy load
>> (big difference there) ;)
>>
>> -Shade
> _______________________________________________
> general mailing list
> general at openid.net
> http://openid.net/mailman/listinfo/general
>
More information about the general
mailing list