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Feature Request: Open ID support


Guest VelvetElvis

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You don't get it. As said, you can make your own if you want it and release it on IPSB or wherever. The login system full supports this and nothing is stopping you. If IPS were to support OpenID, they'd have to support all the other ideas just like that. There's no reason to. This is exactly why the login system was modularized. Try getting this kind of support on vB, phpBB, or any other popular system. I've yet to see another forum system offer this level of abstraction in their code, unless you count the ways you can "hack" your way to this using vB's hooks system.



Since LDAP is supported out-of-the-box in IPB I don’t see why OpenID shouldn’t!?
OpenID is becoming a widespread industry standard, Microsoft, SUN, Verisign and others are adopting it.
I think that you need to do some deeper research about what OpenID really is.

BTW: There is OpenID add-on module for phpBB see http://openid.phpbb.cc/
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LDAP is supported out of the box for two reasons: Novell Directory Service, Windows Active Directory.



IP.Board is meant to be a complete enterprise solution, and not supporting the two most used enterprise authentication systems in the world would be suicide.



Microsoft will be creating interops between OpenID and CardSpace. Verisign's only adopting it because

they wrote it

. Same with Sun.



That said, you want to see it with IP.Board, then create an interop with Converge. Actually, let me rephrase that some: if IPS can find the time, it'd be a good idea for them to do something with this. But I don't think this is important enough to take away from core functionality (which new login providers is

not

).


A little off topic:
Is there a way I can emulate/test a LDAP system without running AD? I don't have server on me (though I can probably pick up 2000 server for an okay price).

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