Re: Wiki authentification [Was: Summary from the debian www/wiki BoF at DC14]
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 02:05:33PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>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.
That's my hope, yes.
>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.
Yup... :-)
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