[Python-Dev] Offtopic: OpenID Providers

[Tres Seaver]

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On 09/05/2013 03:52 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
>> I think Persona is just too new to see it around much yet.  Or maybe
>> Mozilla needs better PR.
> 
> The Persona site touts: "Signing in using Persona requires only a 
> valid email address; allowing you to provide personal information on 
> as-needed basis, when and where you think it’s appropriate."
> 
> They clearly need a better example site. They chose something called 
> Voost. Sure enough, all I needed to enter was my Gmail address. That 
> got me signed in, but then Voost asked me for a bunch of other 
> personal information (name, gender, birthdate, etc), and wouldn't let 
> me go any farther without that. :-/

As sith OpenID, the key element to Persona is SSO:  you can authenticate
without needing to create / remember passwords for every site you visit.
 Whether a given site chooses to authroize an
authenticated-but-otherwise-unknown user to do anything meaningful is
logically distinct.

+1 for supporting Persona as an alternative to OpenID on all *.python.org
servers.



Tres.
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