On 11 February 2015 at 04:28, Jeremy Stanley <fu...@yuggoth.org> wrote: > On 2015-02-10 12:33:29 -0500 (-0500), Donald Stufft wrote: > [...] >> In a slightly hypocritical view point, I actually think that at >> some point we should get something like id.python.org which is an >> IdP and switch all of the *.python.org sites to authenticate >> against that instead of keeping local user accounts. This would >> reduce the number of passwords that Python inflicts on people but >> it still keeps authentication within our (PSF/Python/whatever)'s >> control. This is more along the lines of implementing SSO using a >> federated auth technology than actual federated auth though. > > The OpenStack community is in the process of doing this already (for > exactly all of the same reasons you stated), so I'm happy to discuss > details or point you to relevant ML/IRC conversations and software > if it helps in any way.
Likewise, although in my case, Fedora had the Fedora Account System in place long before I got involved in the project, and in my experience it works well :) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
