[Unity-design] Authenticating lenses

[David Pitkin]

Are you looking for suggestions like "Click this link to authorize this
lens" which opens a browser which can handle the return URL's or a more
sophisticated method for storing credentials for services that don't yet
support OAuth tokens that way?



On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <
joerlend.schinstad at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Den 24. april 2012 17:31, skrev David Pitkin:
> > Many services have solved a similar problem (insecure to store
> > passwords and don't want to reprompt) by authorizing an app key on
> > behalf of the user.
>
> Right. But at some point, you need to authorize somehow. You may have to
> use certain credentials in order to obtain an OAuth token. There's
> currently no way to do that, or at least no unified way.
>
> Jo-Erlend Schinstad
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-app-devel/attachments/20120424/f8494db1/attachment.html>