authorization [ was Re: Usage of bzr-hg plug-in ]

[Ben Finney]

Russel Winder <russel.winder at concertant.com> writes:

> I thought Launchpad support OpenID?

Only in one direction.

> Certainly it seems to indicate that it holds an OpenID authorization
> capability for me even though I have never set one up.

Launchpad has recently become an OpenID Provider: anyone who already has
a Launchpad account now has (I'm told) an OpenID thereby, that they can
use on *other sites* which are OpenID Relying Parties.

Launchpad is not an OpenID Relying Party: existing OpenIDs cannot be
used to authenticate to Launchpad.

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Ben Finney
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