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  Matt Polito April 25th, 2008 @ 11:20 AM

  A previous ticket was already made for this subject and was recently marked as 'resolved'. Not sure if the feature has actually been implemented though.

  http://logicalawesome.lighthouse...

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  Zectbumo April 25th, 2008 @ 01:41 PM

  • → Title changed from “integrate OpenID” to “Impress defunkt with OpenID so he will implement it”

  I originally did a search and found no tickets open for openid so I opened this ticket. I didn't realize that this issue has been discussed.

  I just did a search (again) and this time found:

  ticket #78

  ticket #110

  all duplicates. It seems that defunkt is "not impressed"

  so, how about trying something different. Let's impress defunkt.

  Here is my go at it:

  First thing's first, get an openid provider:

  Do you have an AOL/AIM account? Then you already have an openid provider, it's http://openid.aol.com/username

  Have a yahoo account? Then you can create an openid URL with openid.yahoo.com .

  Once you have your openid then you can use it to log into any place that supports openid. The local website links its local account with the openid account so the user only has to remember one username and one password. This allows the user to roam from website to website without having to worry about logins.

  All that is cool and nice, but here is my favorite part. The openid delegate. Openid was designed in a way that you could use any URL to initiate the openid authentication with any openid provider. What this means is one can use yahoo as an openid provider but use their own domain/url. This means one can create the url github.com/dfunkt with the contents having a yahoo openid delegate call. This makes it so you can have a "life long" username. If yahoo goes out of business then you simply change your openid provider to, let's say, AOL and your openid would still be github.com/dfunkt (now authenticating to AOL).

  That's cool!

  So summary:

  1) you don't have to remember dozens of user/pass

  2) your login is the same across all sites

  3) your login id is the same for life

  If you still are not impressed,... well maybe you will be impressed with how many people file the same request over and over again. As openid gets used more and more then users will become "spoiled" and you will hear much more about it. So, it's not a question of should openid be implemented in github, but when?

  -alfred

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  Alex Wayne May 1st, 2008 @ 10:30 AM

  OpenID would allow automatic discovery of your public GitHub projects from other web applications. Here is a somewhat contrived example:

  • I log into the hot new social network "FooBar" with my OpenID.
  • FooBar knows how to access the APIs of various sites around the web, and it asks GitHub for all the public projects for the OpenID that was just used to create your account on FooBar.
  • My profile page on FooBar now has, in its sidebar: "My Open Source Projects" which has in it each public project you own on GitHub.

  You could do this without OpenID, but OpenID is the only to do it with zero configuration. Without OpenID you would need to prompt the user to enter their GitHub username or some such.

  Single sign on is great too, but the real value in the future of OpenID is in this sort of zero configuration data mashup capability that you get for free simply do to that fact that in the entire internet, you can guarantee that you are the only one with that OpenID. The more you use your OpenID, the more it becomes connected between all the various sites you use, and the more valuable and interconnected the data on those sites becomes.

  And its easier to login on my iphone, since password with caps, numbers, and symbols are no phone on that little keyboard.

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  defunkt May 1st, 2008 @ 11:38 AM

  • → State changed from “new” to “open”

  Alright you guys win. OpenID is coming soon.

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  Alex Wayne May 1st, 2008 @ 11:51 AM

  Rock on, thanks man.

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  Eric Mill August 3rd, 2008 @ 10:57 PM

  • → Tag changed from “” to “feature”

  Allow me to offer my vocal support for OpenID here. Alex Wayne's point about zero configuration mashups is the killer here. It's what makes Backpack/Basecamp's Open Bar so sick. I'd love to see it on Github.

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  Zach Holman August 24th, 2008 @ 12:32 PM

  "coming soon" is such a relative phrase some time. :)

  Anyway, I'm still interested in seeing it, though I'm not sure what the current state of development is. Yeah, it's cool to to have all that integration and stuff, but I just like the idea that I can type in just my domain and get signed in (since I delegate to my proper openID provider). Just too many username and passwords and all that jazz.

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  mrflip August 25th, 2008 @ 12:14 AM

  +1