OpenID support

[Michal Predotka]

I have OpenID registered in Launchpad. I tried to log in to some website using "pad.lv" instead of "launchpad.net" in my OpenID URL. Unfortunately it doesn't work.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Interesting bug.

I don't actually know whether it is possible for this to work in
OpenID, but if it is, I would be happy to support it.

It's arguably a security risk to you because pad.lv is not an official
Canonical service.

Martin

[Michal Predotka (mpredotka)]

I didn't know that pad.lv is not official Canonical service. I thought it's just a service within Launchpad.

Anyway, I tried to login to http://www.livejournal.com using "http://pad.lv/~mpredotka" and it does work. :) Using "https" instead of "http" does not work.

Unfortunately, there's a problem with logging to my Drupal website. I have there my OpenID from Launchpad assigned to my administration account. But, if I use "http://pad.lv/~mpredotka" to log in, my site does not recognize me as an admin, only just as a new normal user. Maybe the problem is on the Drupal side.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

On 31 March 2011 20:37, mmiicc <email address hidden> wrote:
> I didn't know that pad.lv is not official Canonical service. I thought
> it's just a service within Launchpad.
>
> Anyway, I tried to login to http://www.livejournal.com using
> "http://pad.lv/~mpredotka" and it does work. :) Using "https" instead of
> "http" does not work.

I think there's a separate bug for https support.

> Unfortunately, there's a problem with logging to my Drupal website. I
> have there my OpenID from Launchpad assigned to my administration
> account. But, if I use "http://pad.lv/~mpredotka" to log in, my site
> does not recognize me as an admin, only just as a new normal user. Maybe
> the problem is on the Drupal side.

I expect it's just comparing the URLs for string identity. It has no
way to know(?) that those two urls refer to the same person.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Depending on your point of view, this is either already fixed, or impossible to fix. You can use pad.lv/~yourname as your openid url, but applications won't see this as being the same as your launchpad one. If you see any way around this, please give me a reference and reopen the bug.