Google shuts down the OpenID 2.0 on April 20, 2015

[Norbert Thiebaud]

>
> but if we seriously want a hosted system, the only thing that is know
> to work is LDAP...
> I'm not quite fluent in ldap, but I am under the impression that it is
> not well suited to 'open public registration' kind of scheme....

I stumbled upon:
https://code.google.com/p/pwm/

so maybe ldap is a workable solution using existing component....

anyhow.. that is way on a tangent... from the initial and more
immediate problem of google openid going away.

Norbert