[sugar] Integration with web apps (and Moodle specifically!)

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Wed Sep 6 20:37:30 EDT 2006


Ivan Krstić wrote:
> Krishna Sankar (ksankar) wrote:
>> Hopefully you are looking at Liberty Alliance, SAML and Shibboleth
> 
> These are, for the most part, solutions to a problem we don't have. As
> I've stressed before, I see the laptops providing strong authentication
> only in *very* constrained cases; for everything else, there's standard
> authentication.
> 
> One thing I would like to do is eventually make use of the strong
> authentication to the school server to integrate with OpenID, and
> automatically offer an OpenID identity to the kids to use on the open
> web as they choose. This is post-rev1 work, however.

+1.  I think OpenID balances a lot of these privacy issues pretty well, 
while at the same time you can get a fairly seamless experience.  Well, 
seemless except for a bunch of redirects.

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