28 Apr
2014
28 Apr
'14
2:46 p.m.
Discussed this with @Juul briefly, sharing his experience writing hacks for
authentication across all the systems at Labitat.
Given that it was a pain in the butt and took a bunch of time, at the very
least it may be worth it (in the long term) to use Mozilla Persona to hack
auth into all of our apps, instead of writing independent little hacks.
Either way it's a lot of work, but it may be better than the alternatives.
Definitely not the most immediate priority, but I think still worth keeping
our eyes on.
Added a wiki page with more details here: https://sudoroom.org/wiki/Persona
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I've been thinking about how we could to encourage
app development without
having to increase the administrative costs, especially for user
authentication.
Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with authentication systems
(CAS or otherwise) that they can share?
Specifically, it seems like Mozilla Persona is a really good solution for
us to implement and work towards:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Persona
A lot of systems already have libraries or support:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona/Libraries_and_plugins
It would be easy to implement using Mozilla.org as the provider, but due
to decentralization of the system, we should be able to point to our own
implemented server instead in the future.
Or perhaps there is a better alternative?
// Matt