openid

With Drupal core OpenID module, users can authenticate on your Drupal  
site with
OpenID. With the OpenID extensions AX and SReg it is also possible to  
exchange
with user profile data. Alex Barth, Darren Ferguson and I have worked  
in the
past months together to improve the existing OpenID AX / SREG modules:

After doing a bit of research in OpenID (I’m a complete novice other than thinking “oh – that’s cool” one day) I think it would be a great system to keep multiple pcmtv.org domains and development environments running smoothly.

For those of you who are like me and don’t know much about it there’s a great video tutorial of the concept here.

As I was doing some research it seemed to make the most sense to me for PCM to offer to be an Identity Provider and offer people user.pcmtv.org as their ID.

Based on an email conversation I had with Darren, Evgeny, Aron Novak and Walkah I pulled together this roadmap for advanced OpenID features (attribute exchange, provider, etc).

The goal is to reduce the overall number of modules involved in deploying OpenID attribute exchange features, to expand on existing content profile integration, to remove dependencies on modules that are not used in all use cases and to push changes into OpenID and OpenID Provider where it makes sense.

I've got a client who is looking at having around 50 or so multisites, all different domains, but would like allow either a single sign on approach, i.e. signin once and automatically be authenticated across all the multisites, or have the same user/pwd but have to sign in, using that across sites, with shared profiles.

Any, semi secure way to do this without using OpenID?

I've taken a cursor look at this module, http://drupal.org/project/multisite_login, but we're on Drupal 6.

I've got the time/skillset to port it, but would prefer a proven solution over rolling my own.

thanks.

I have renamed this group to OpenID and its URL has changed accordingly. Lets use this group to discuss OpenID for *.drupal.org and for Drupal7.

walkah has just finished his OpenId session at Boston2008.

Rumors of new 4.7 based OpenID server and client modules are running wild. The rumors swirl around Bryght and the mysterious James Walker in particular. Can anyone confirm or deny?

Here are links to various server PHP code with some notes:

Videntity - http://videntity.org/openid/

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PHP OpenID is intended to run on any version of PHP >= 4.1.0, although I have only tested it with PHP5 and PHP4.4 on gentoo. If you encounter problems running with other versions, please let me know. Great care has been taken to use PHP extensions when available and to provide fallback routines in case the extension is not present. These fallback routines are often slower and may not be as secure or "rock-solid". For production use of the library, I recommend installation of these extensions: gmp, mhash, curl, and tidy2. PHP OpenID does not use or require PEAR.

This has been in the works for a while, but now it’s official: http://openacademic.org

This is an open source project designed to integrate Elgg, Drupal, Moodle, and Mediawiki. All code that fuels the integration will be released back to the community.

The project is a collaborative venture between the Elgg team and FunnyMonkey.

In the next few weeks, we’ll be building out the infrastructure to support the project, including a development site to centralize the integration discussions and coding, as well as a svn repository for the codebase.