Re: what is the simplest user auth system possible?

2012-10-29 Thread Balint Erdi
If you share your pc with your brother then using the classic one username/password per site you'd have to log out and back in on each site you want to use (or use another browser/incognito window, etc.) With Persona you only have to do this once. On Sunday, October 28, 2012 9:05:20 PM UTC+1,

Re: what is the simplest user auth system possible?

2012-10-28 Thread larry google groups
What happens if the Persona project closes down? On Friday, October 26, 2012 7:06:48 AM UTC-4, Dave Sann wrote: For authorisation, I really like mozilla persona (previously browserid) which I discovered from refheap. javascript lib plus an http request from the server to validate. really

Re: what is the simplest user auth system possible?

2012-10-28 Thread Simone Mosciatti
I never really get Persona (means person in Italian that doesn't really make a lot of sense, but whatever) what if I share my pc with my brother ? Maybe i miss something... If you are using mongodb I am using https://github.com/xavi/noir-auth-app that is using congomongo and since i am using

Re: what is the simplest user auth system possible?

2012-10-26 Thread Dave Sann
For authorisation, I really like mozilla persona (previously browserid) which I discovered from refheap. javascript lib plus an http request from the server to validate. really simple. https://login.persona.org/ Dave On Friday, 26 October 2012 01:35:53 UTC+11, Stephen Compall wrote: On

Re: what is the simplest user auth system possible?

2012-10-26 Thread Dave Sann
Sorry, I meant to say authentication. On Friday, 26 October 2012 22:06:48 UTC+11, Dave Sann wrote: For authorisation, I really like mozilla persona (previously browserid) which I discovered from refheap. javascript lib plus an http request from the server to validate. really simple.

Re: what is the simplest user auth system possible?

2012-10-26 Thread Pierre R
+1 for Persona. Please give your user a chance to break the cycle of password madness ;-) On Friday, October 26, 2012 1:10:42 PM UTC+2, Dave Sann wrote: Sorry, I meant to say authentication. On Friday, 26 October 2012 22:06:48 UTC+11, Dave Sann wrote: For authorisation, I really like

Re: what is the simplest user auth system possible?

2012-10-26 Thread Anthony Grimes
Another +1 for Persona. I'm the author of Refheap which uses Persona, and I chose it specifically because of how easy it was to implement and use. On Friday, October 26, 2012 3:26:16 PM UTC-5, Pierre R wrote: +1 for Persona. Please give your user a chance to break the cycle of password

what is the simplest user auth system possible?

2012-10-25 Thread larry google groups
I have a website written in PHP, using the Symfony framework, which is a monolithic framework much like what Ruby On Rails used to be. I have been slowly re-writing the website in Clojure, and as I do this I've been breaking up the system into several small apps, rather than one huge

Re: what is the simplest user auth system possible?

2012-10-25 Thread Stephen Compall
On Oct 25, 2012 9:04 AM, larry google groups lawrencecloj...@gmail.com wrote: For my next step, I need to come up with a user system. My needs are minimal: I only need to know when someone is logged in, and I need to associate them with some user id (the id will simply be the id from a user table