OpenID Authentication

I've finished a first draft of an add-on to support OpenID Authentication. This requires no code changes and only one template change. The caveat however, is that it does require two third party libraries to handle the OpenID and Yadis protocols. I've only tested it on 3.5.4, but I'm pretty sure it should work in 3.6 (RC1) as well.

Right now, this add-on allows existing users to populate a custom profile field with their OpenID URL, and then use that for subsequent logins. This does NOT allow new users to register with their OpenID... they will still need to create an initial password and such as normal. I'd like to change that in a future release.

If you're not familiar with OpenID, check out http://openid.net/

[GoldenChaos]

It looks like cheesegrits hasn't logged in in a month and a half. I suppose the project isn't happening?

[tpearl5]

keeping my eye on this.

[Shamil.]

I doubt it - but i'll see what I can do

[GoldenChaos]

Is there NOBODY who will pick up this project? I'm desperate for a full OpenID system for vB...

[stuartm]

Originally Posted by GoldenChaos

Is there NOBODY who will pick up this project? I'm desperate for a full OpenID system for vB...

I'm currently working on an OpenID product strongly based on the work by wnorris. It's working on vB 3.8.1 against JanRain's OpenID 2.x. There's still a couple of issues with automatic registration, but I hope to have those sorted out shortly. (stay tuned!)

[4wdaction]

*bump*

Would like to see something like this up and running, any news?

[GoldenChaos]

Originally Posted by stuartm

I'm currently working on an OpenID product strongly based on the work by wnorris. It's working on vB 3.8.1 against JanRain's OpenID 2.x. There's still a couple of issues with automatic registration, but I hope to have those sorted out shortly. (stay tuned!)

Good to hear. I'm about to jump ship and use Facebook Connect instead, but if you've got an OpenID solution intact, in any form, I'd rather use OpenID than Facebook Connect anyday.

I still really want to see a true OpenID solution come to vBulletin. A guy has got an entire Facebook Connect system up and running in the time that the OpenID community has done almost literally nothing. It's shameful.

[SirFalcon]

Awesome, keep us up to date on this.

[Puppetm4ster]

Maybe signing this petition

http://demand.openid.net/site/vbulletin.com

helps developers to see the common interest in this plugin. But it'll only help if as many users as possible gonna subscribe. It's just an OpenId away ;-)

[khallmark]

This plugin is compatible up to 3.8.2. I have also successfully integrated it with the new 2.x.x series of OpenId libraries from here:

http://openidenabled.com/

You can get this plug-in working with the 2.0 library by changing line 25 of the "login_failure" plugin from:

$return = $auth->complete($_REQUEST);

to:

$return = $auth->complete($_REQUEST['openid_return_to']);