Dear Dr. Slug, I'm considering using Drupal to build a community site, mainly for its distributed authentication feature; a user can log into a new Drupal site using their credentials from another Drupal site, as described at:
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=user/help (drupal.org seems to be unreachable atm). I'm aware that other CMSs exist, and that perhaps other systems like MoveableType now have a similar feature. What I like about using Drupal is that it encourages a distributed community of members from other relevent, existing sites, such as ourmedia.org and spreadfirefox.com. So, I'm after two bits of advice from anyone who's administered Drupal, or who can convincingly impersonate a Drupal administrator: 1) Do you hate Drupal? Have you used it extensively and then switched away from it? why? 2) How hard, or not, do you have to squint to see a resemblence between a security model and Drupal's distributed authentication? For example, can I choose not to accept authentication from certain sites? and is there anything other than a distributed relaying of plaintext passwords? cheers, Conrad. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
