Cross-domain authentication using identity.kde.org

Ben Cooksley bcooksley at kde.org
Fri Apr 25 11:11:23 UTC 2014


On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 7:01 AM, Alexander Potashev
<aspotashev at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi WWW team,

Hi Alexander,

>
> I'm going to create a new KDE-related web service to coordinate
> translators into Russian. To minimize the number of web accounts
> people have I would like to avoid storing passwords on my server.
> Instead, it sounds promising to use authentication through
> identity.kde.org, like you did at forum.kde.org.
>
> I need an advice on how to implement this. Thanks!

At the moment this is conducted using standard LDAP login procedures.

There are plans at some point to shift to a custom, secure login
protocol which would allow performing SSO - and ensure that only
Identity was responsible for taking usernames / passwords and
validating them.

If you need any other details, please let me know.

>
> --
> Alexander Potashev

Thanks,
Ben Cooksley
KDE Sysadmin

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