[ckan-discuss] ugly OpenIDs

[Benoit Boissinot]

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Stefano Costa <stefano.costa at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'd like to point out that it is quite difficult to manage Google
> OpenIDs in CKAN, because they show as unreadable URLs like
>
>        https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawkiyyBPhVnw3xhY-aAtTzlLWCB12ZVExrY
>
> It is quite difficult, for example, if you want to add one user to a
> group as an administrator or editor. I don't know if there are
> workarounds for this, but I wanted to make people aware that it can make
> it a bit difficult to work on CKAN.
>

Isn't there a CKAN username as well? Why don't you use that instead
(the openid url doesn't really need to be exposed, no?) ?

Cheers,

Benoit