[Systers-dev] Project Using Mailman Authentication

[Terri Oda]

Jaideep Khandelwal wrote:
> 1.) Do we need to create a separate OpenID Provider according to systers
> needs and including a consumer form just to accept only and only those ids
> which has been created by our Open ID Provider   .

I believe requiring people to use our own OpenID provider would negate 
many of the benefits provided by OpenID (to whit: that Systers members 
could use a more popular account of their choice rather than having to 
remember yet another password).

That said, it might be helpful for us to be an OpenID provider as well, 
in case people would prefer to keep their Systers membership separate 
for some reason... I believe this was discussed last year, and I'm sure 
someone with a better memory than can fill you in on the issues 
discussed then. :)

> 2.)  Two statements for the idea has
>      * Systers would like to use the mailing list membership info and
> password to access other resources.
>     **This project essentially aims at getting Single Sign On to work for
> the various systers account using their mailman passwords for
> authentication.
> 
> *What does this '*other resources*' and '*various systers account*' include

The first one that comes to mind is the systers wiki.  I imagine this is 
also with an eye to future ideas, though, which is why it's nebulous. 
For example, Jen mentioned doing a planet/blog aggregator: if we had a 
nice single signon system, we might be able to let people more easily 
add themselves and update their information.  But right now, that could 
result in requiring yet another login...

  Terri