[SAC] Re: [OSGeo] #103: Move main OSGeo Wiki to OSGeo infrastructure

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:01:00AM +0100, Martin Spott wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:38:37PM -0000, OSGeo wrote:
> 
> >  http://openid.osgeo.org/
> 
> I certainly don't want to sound harsh. Yet I'd like to pronounce my
> concern which regards running a 'critical' authentication service on a
> machine that probably only very few SAC members have admin access to,
> that runs on a single disk with no backup and that offers a login page
> to transfer unencrypted passwords.
> 
> I acknowldege that OpenID is a nice game, maybe even a useful service.
> Yet I'd propose to proceed a bit more careful when it comes to
> authentication services.
> Is there any OSGeo Trac ticket, has there been any discussion on
> offering an OSGeo OpenID service ? I'm unable to find such thing in
> OSGeo Trac.

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2007-July/000719.html

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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