Re: Wiki authentification [Was: Summary from the debian www/wiki BoF at DC14]
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Fabien Givors (Debian) wrote:
> Since the question of authentication is on the table (and sorry if it
> has already been asked, I didn't find any thread related to that on
> d-www), I was wondering why the different wikis (wiki, debconf, maybe
> others) each have their own accounts for non-dd contributors.
The reasons are mainly historical.
> The problem for DD (and for alioth members IIUC) appears to be solved by
> SSO. But for contributors, I see no plan of centralizing accounts.
The ultimate situation is to merge all of the user databases
(including wiki.d.o, alioth.d.o, wiki.dc.o, db.dc.o etc) into
db.debian.org.
> I was wondering if using (for example) alioth as a central account
> manager for *all* (non-dd?) contributors was not done:
>
> a) because someone has to do it (and it depends on SSO being enabled),
Probably the biggest one.
> b) for technical/political reasons,
There were some of these in the past, many are gone now.
> c) because signing in alioth is a couple more clicks harder than signing
> in a wiki,
I think the procedures are approximately equivalent.
> d) because migrating all the existing accounts would be (more or less)
> impossible,
It should be doable to some extent at least.
> e) some other reason I haven't thought of.
All our existing user databases were created because we had no SSO
solution and it was easier to just go with what was available at the
time.
--
bye,
pabs
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