[ckan-dev] Problems with OpenID on Czech CKAN

Wed Aug 22 08:26:43 UTC 2012

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 04:05:25PM +0200, Ondřej Vadinský wrote:
> Dne Pá 17. srpna 2012 13.11:30, Sean Hammond napsal(a):
> > OpenID is disabled because it causes a lot of problems, our intention is
> > to remove OpenId support completely in a future version of CKAN. Can you
> > get by without using OpenID?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> yes, I am aware of that, since I read some bug reports. Problem is, that most 
> of our packages are locked for public changes and till now the users were 
> encouraged to use OpenID acounts. I do not know if the packages can be 
> modified by any logged-in user, or by their creators only. If the first is 
> true, then we can manage withouth OpenID, if the second is true, we would need 
> OpenID at least temporarily, to enable the users to log in and sort it out. 
> Also if it is possible for existing accounts to change login method from 
> OpenID to other, then it would be better to have OpenID working for some time 
> to let the users do the change.

I believe that even when OpenID is enabled CKAN users first need to
register a normal CKAN username and password, and then they can
associate their OpenID with their normal CKAN account and start logging
in with OpenID. So any users who were logging in with OpenID should also
have normal CKAN usernames and passwords that they can login with.