Site logon

[Alan Pope]

Hi,

Just a quick update about something that has been in the back of my mind
for a while.

You may have noticed that the screencasts site has no logon or
registration page (well, it does if you know the URL ;) ). This means
that people who leave comments are always "Anonymous". 

I have left the logon screen off because I didn't want people to have to
register and logon with yet another username and password. In the long
term I hoped that we could use people launchpad ID for authentication so
people could use an account they already have.

Unfortunately this feature (external site authentication) isn't complete
yet, but is scheduled to be developed in launchpad later in the year.
There is a bug in launchpad that you can follow if you're interested:-

Launchpad bug 1169 in launchpad "Launchpad should support
OpenID" [Medium,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1169 

As I understand it some internal sites such as the wiki will be tightly
integrated so people can logon directly with their launchpad username
and password. "External" sites would use the OpenID interface.

Technically we are an "external" site, however we are hosted on a
Canonical server which is under their system admins control. This works
in our favour because we _may_ be able to swing ourselves as an
"internal" site. 

If this is indeed the case then (once this development is done) we could
apply for the change to be implemented on our site, and people would
then be able to interact with the site a bit better. There are features
that we could turn on in the site which engage users a little more than
we currently do.

Hope that's interesting for you.

Cheers,
Al.
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