[ckan-dev] OpenID

Fri Mar 9 18:45:42 UTC 2012

+1 on killing OpenID, it has been pining for the fjords for a while now.  We should help put it out of it's misery.


Ross


On 9 Mar 2012, at 18:37, Toby Dacre wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On the subject of depreciating things, I'd like to start the move away from OpenID.  Talking to David Raznick this seems to be a leftover from earlier times. People need to register to use it now and it was unclear to me how to link a none openID eg google account to my user account. It also complicates the log in page.
> 
> Some current users of OpenID may not have registered accounts. so we need to transition them.  We could start to give them warnings of it's withdrawal and request them to create proper accounts if they have not already done so using flash messages.
> 
> We could then look at removing it as a method of access in a year or so
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Toby
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