On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Markus Lanthaler <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Thomas!
I would say if OpenID is turned off then users created for OpenID or attached to OpenId are unusable to authenticate if they don't have any XWiki password. The default authenticator does not allows users to log with empty passwords, this is enough to protect them I think. This could be used when the administrator want to easily disable wiki modifications for maintenance for example.
Well, but that's not the only consequence. If you issue OpenID URLs (so that XWiki acts as the OpenID provider).. The users loose also access to all other websites where they used the XWiki OpenID URL. So we have to be very very careful about a "switch-off feature". I would suggest to enable/disable OpenID support during setup. If someone then really wants to turn it off he has to do that somehow manually (not through a GUI).
Agree that no ones should be able to do that using some GUI but anyway at least now to switch authenticator you have to edit xwiki.cfg et restart XWiki.
If we want to support only OpenID, OpenID4Java seems the better way to do that in the short term for you to be sure to finish your GSOC. Now in the long term we would surely choose one of the framework available to easily add other supports latter I think... I seen that ESOE provide a generic Confluence / Jira Integrator but can't find any source/description.
Yes that's clear. The thing that I don't understand is how exactly you would see support of one of these frameworks!? Does that mean that such a framework will be bundled and shipped with XWiki by default or that it is just an option? The frameworks are quite complex and setting them up properly isn't so easy as it seems at the first moment.
If it's OK for you I would start creating the architecture and describe detailed how I would like to implement OpenID support with a OpenID library the next days. Then ask for some feedback on that and finally begin to implement this. My last exam is next Monday (July, 7th) so afterwards I'm finally free to work exclusively for XWiki :-)
OK great.
Just to be sure: Does that means that it is OK to start with OpenID integration using OpenID4Java? Or do you prefer Netmesh? As far as I know OpenID4Java is kind of the standard library used. On the other side Netmesh supports also LID (a similar protocol to OpenID created by Netmesh).
In the context of the GSOC, I think you should run with OpenID4Java. But I'm not an expert of SSO/OpenId so it would be great to have others comments on that, especially Sergiu.
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