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[Riccardo Magliocchetti]

Hello,

Il 30/03/2015 11:22, Michael Meeks ha scritto:
> Hi Albert,
>
> On Sun, 2015-03-29 at 02:37 +0100, Albert Thuswaldner wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Michael Meeks
>> <michael.meeks at collabora.com> wrote:
>>>      + make sure to create a new openid if you are using the Google openID (all)
>>>          [ still need to get this done ! ]
>>
>> I wonder a bit what the real alternatives are here? It seems to me
>> that OpenId is on the ropes. I would like to avoid having to get yet
>> another account somwhere, just to get acess to openid just to be able
>> to login into gerrit. Have other ways to login been considered?

openAuth is the standard these days for apis, and it looks like David Ostrovsky 
is on it to support both on gerrit 
https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/c/66313/2

> 	But yes - I loathe yet-another-account - the 'web' seems essentially
> pathetic when it come to identity - beyond awful. I blame people like
> the Mozilla foundation FWIW for not standardizing & un-screwing-up
> something that appears trivial to users that have enjoyed the power of
> ssh keys for access control for a decade or more. My hope would be that
> something like:
>
> http://identity.mozilla.com/post/7616727542/introducing-browserid-a-better-way-to-sign-in

They delivered persona based on BrowserID
https://login.persona.org/

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Riccardo Magliocchetti
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