[OpenID] Beanstalk removes OpenID support

[Chris Messina]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Andrew Arnott <andrewarnott at gmail.com>wrote:

> I don't know how one could add OpenID support to SVN.  But OAuth would be a
> natural.  An 'svn authorize" command would pop up a web browser where the
> user would log into the SVN server site (the OAuth SP) using OpenID or any
> other credential, and then SVN could capture the OAuth token and use that
> programmatically from then on.
>
> Chris, what can we do to better "package" OpenID and OAuth as a combined
> solution for these scenarios?
>

Well, for one thing, document how that kind of flow might actually be
implemented!

And, FWIW, Google Code and Basecamp both provide a decent solution for
dealing with OpenID users in cases with browser-less situations like the
command-line... by providing a revokable/resettable secret that can be used
in combination with one's OpenID to perform CLI authentication w/o creating
a new username.

It's all in how you think about implementing the solution — being pragmatic
and not overly religious!

;)

Chris


>
>
>
> 2009/5/28 Ben Laurie <benl at google.com>
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > So Beanstalk just removed support for OpenID from their hosted
>> subversion
>> > app:
>> >
>> http://www.wildbit.com/blog/2009/05/26/what-happened-to-openid-support-in-beanstalk/
>> > I find this both interesting and frustrating, since I used OpenID to
>> sign in
>> > to my Beanstalk account and now can't remember my username. Heh, go
>> figure.
>> > Still, it points out that the lack of desktop/API solution for OpenID as
>> a
>> > *baked* solution could really hurt the protocol as OpenID seeps into
>> more
>> > applications. I mean, Beanstalk is still one application, but the fact
>> that
>> > we as a community haven't articulated how to use OpenID with SVN (or
>> built
>> > the technical machinery to make that easy) ultimately impacts adoption.
>> > Anyway, thought it was worth bringing up here, since it's something I
>> hadn't
>> > really seen before.
>>
>> It is also interesting that they ask for OAuth support in SVN, but
>> what they actually need is OpenID support, isn't it?
>>
>> > Chris
>> >
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