[TYPO3-core] RFC #9474: Integrate OpenID authentication support to TYPO3

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi,

>>> Problem: integrate OpenID authentication to TYPO3 (both BE and FE).
>>
>> I wonder if Hackontest caused Google to plan OpenID integration.
>> There was a woman from Google Code there. Now Google moves towards
>> OpenID and hosts something on the Google Code about it.
>>
>> News:
>> http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2008/10/google-moves-towards-single-sign-on.html 
>>
>>
>> If Hackontest influenced them, I am quite proud :)
>>
> 
>  From what I read is the google in M$ doesn't accept OpenID accounts 
> created
> by other providers and only created by them selves, which is something
> that OpenID was not created for... Is that true??

It seems so.

> 
> If so, why would google and MS then support OpenID, I still cannot login
> to there account (google) if I wanted to.

No, but the other way around is true. You may allow *your* website user 
to authenticate with a Google account. That's just another provider for 
OpenID, meaning that all users with a Google account may log in a bit 
more easily on your website(s).

OpenID needs websites and systems that act as consumers, just as we do 
with our new sysext OpenID.

-- 
Xavier Perseguers
http://xavier.perseguers.ch/en/tutorials/typo3.html