Hi there, Have you seen Open ID already?
http://openid.net/ An open and decentralized identity system, designed "not to crumble if one company turns evil or goes out of business" Cheers, Juan On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Marc Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Blogs, CMS, bulletin boards, chat systems, social networks, most > RIA's... they all have something in common. Users. Users need to > sign up and log in. Why is it that each system, even open source > systems, end up implementing their own User management system? I bet > there's several million login form implementations out there by now, > that's stupid. > > So, does anyone know of any open source user management / subscription > systems? > > In general I'd want things like > > - Allowing users to sign up (email verification, catpcha support, > configurable list of user details to require) > - Assign various access levels (or attributes?) to users. > - Allow users to log in / log out > - Detect multiple failed logins for a user or from a source host with > configurable temporary lockouts > - Provide a simple API to use in applications that build upon it to > get login status & access level (preferably language-agnostic) > - Mechanism for retrieval of forgotten passwords (email? security > question(s)?, combination?) > - Provide a simple html based UI to handle all of these functions > (including administrative functions like approving, disabling, > changing access, etc.). > - Provide an XML-RPC or AMF based interface to perform all of the > functions so it's easily customizable by application that builds upon > it. > - Mechanism to include paid subscriptions > > There's a ton of full-featured CMS systems out there like drupal, > postnuke, etc. But I'd really like a very basic user management > system that was designed to be built upon. I fear starting with one > of those all-encompassing packages would result in a lot of unneeded > complexity, and a giant security risk in code that I don't even need. > > Weird thing is I've needed this for a personal project for a while > now, and my day-job just asked me the exact same question yesterday. I > have to believe there's a huge demand for it. > > Thanks for any info, > -Marc > > p.s. much of this email copied from blog, sorry it the tone sounds weird. > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > -- Juan Delgado - Zárate http://zarate.tv http://dandolachapa.com http://loqueyosede.com _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
