[sugar] XO identity shared via Browse

[Sebastian Silva]

Can we please consider making this OpenID? It would really help to
integrate everything. I made a proposal about it some time ago, and
currently SugarLabs wiki has OpenID, which by the way, is a great.

Sebastian

2008/12/2 Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com>:
> Hi Tomeu and Browse engineers,
>
> Talking with Martin L recently he mentioned that you have some ideas on
> how the XO can communicate its identity (e.g. serial # and maybe user
> name) with a web server. We're mostly thinking of the school server as
> the server side but a more generic solution may be acceptable.
>
> The main idea is to eliminate the need for students to ever type in a
> user name and password. e.g. they should be able to just hit the Backup
> and Restore URL and see their files without having to login or find
> their serial number in a list.
>
> That's one example. I would also like any Web server to be able to
> extract the XO identity and use it in CGI (e.g. PHP) for processing.
>
> It should also be encrypted so that the XO cannot be spoofed. e.g. only
> the XO which backed up and can see or restore its own files (possibly
> with an admin override).
>
> I put a stub of a requirement for it on our roadmap here:
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Feature_roadmap#Single_Sign_on_from_Browse
>
> Do you have any ideas or designs for how we can achieve that?
>
> Comments and questions welcome.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Greg S
>
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